Re: Choosing a right database

Hi,

    Given your anticipated workload I suggest that you contact some
users whose volumes are similar to your expectations and ask them why they chose the RDBMS products they did. In particular contact
each of the top ten e-commerce sites (all of whom use Oracle) or, better yet, all of the top fifty e-commerce sites (37 of whom use Oracle).

    Informix is a sound product which is perceived to be easier to
manage than Oracle. It is also perceived as being less expensive.
Assuming these perceptions are correct you have to ask yourself why such a high percentage of smart users choose Oracle rather than Informix.

    Do your own research and be wary of advice offered by users whose total experience with RDBMS may be limited to sites with a couple of dozen users with no significant activity.

regards
Jerry Gitomer

Alla Gribov wrote in message <37C004E0.24C40572_at_metatel.com>...
>Hello all;
>
>First of all I am apologizing to all of you if you see this
questions
>posted twice - I am having troubles with sending it.
>
>I need an advice from gurus of database design and development
>
>I am building a database that will have around 1 million users.
At any
>given moment about 5,000 of them are connected to the database.
>The chosen database should be able to perform around 500
reads/writes
>per second.
>
>Is there a database that can support such a task and if yes,
which one
>is the best in your opinion?
>
>My first thought was Oracle, but after doing some research on
Web, it
>seems like that a lot of people prefer Informix over Oracle.
>
>Which would you choose (or may be there are some other databases
that I
>am not aware of that would suit better for this project) - no
Sybase or
>MS Sql-Server,
>sorry to people who like them???
>
>Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
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>The greatest programming project of all took six days. On the
seventh
>day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the thing
ever
>since. Moral: design before you implement.
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