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Whatever you do - don't use MS Access!
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Jerry Gitomer wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >/***************************************************************
> *************/
> > Alla Gribov
> > alla.gribov_at_metatel.com
> >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.
> >/***************************************************************
> *************/
-- Received on Mon Aug 23 1999 - 09:25:19 CDT
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