Re: Terabytes + database on NT

I might as well put my two cents in...

At the company where I work we have run Oracle on NT, Solaris, and Netware (yes Netware). Hands down the Solaris system was the best performer. Given the same data set (about 50GB) everything was faster on the SUN box.

Convential wisdom still dictates that UNIX based systems scale better and farther than anything based on Intel processers.

I was told by a person who was a developer for Oracle that their primary development platform was SUN, but I have no independent confirmation of this.

I short, it has been my experience that SUN/UNIX is a better choice for Oracle.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Anurag Minocha wrote:

> Hi,
> We are in the process of deciding the operating system to hold our database.
> It is expected that the database will be in Terabytes and will keep on
> growing at a very fast pace.
>
> Is NT the right o/s for this or we should move to unix. If unix then which
> flavor of Unix.
>
> I must tell you that the dataase will mainly consist of scanned images.
> Another solution which is possible to limit the size of the database is to
> store the path of the images in the database and store the images in the
> file system. In this way we can use NT, but I am not sure of the side
> effects of this.
>
> We are thinking of 8i or later.
>
> Please help.
> Thanks
> Anurag
>
>
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