Re: Terabytes + database on NT

Let me confirm it for you ... Sun/Solaris is Oracle's primary development platform.

Which not only translates into it usually being the first platform on which a product is released ... but also the first on which bug fixes are released.

And from my experience what you report is the norm. Solaris outperforms NT or Win2000 in security, scalability, stability, and performance.

Daniel A. Morgan

Jacques Voris wrote:

> 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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  Received on Sat Mar 24 2001 - 19:45:48 CST