Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

What happened to Informix, eh?

D.P.

(aka DNP)

Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Mark Townsend wrote:
> >in article 3ad40e47.2871849_at_news-server, Nuno Souto at
> >nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam wrote on 4/11/01 1:07 AM:
> >
> >> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:24:23 GMT, Mark Townsend
> >> <markbtownsend_at_home.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Oracle9i Data Cache is an Oracle9i Application Server feature (iAS). It's
> >>> available now and works against an Oracle8i Database.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Bugger! You mean I can't use it on a normal 9i database (no web)?
> >> Darn! there goes my cunning 3-tier performance plan. :-)
> >> Oh well roll on 9i and let's see what's really inside it then!
> >> Couldn't care less about OAS caches, quite frankly. Data or page.
> >> Still, a nice idea.
> >>
> >Sorry - should have been clearer - you can use the Data Cache with any
> >Oracle client - web, forms, reports, Pro*C, ODBC, what have you. You have to
> >install Oracle9i Application Server to do so, however (Note: Not
> >OAS).
> >
> >So logically it looks like Client -> Data Cache -> Database (8i or 9i).
> >Physically this can be 1,2 or 3 tiers, although having the Data Cache on the
> >same box as the Database doesn't make much sense.
> >
> >I'm pretty certain that the first release only caches data from one back end
> >database - i.e any distributed queries are performed at the database end,
> >not in the Data Cache.
> >
> >The other cache in Oracle9i Application Server, the Web Cache, does cache
> >only HTML. So it looks like: Browser -> Web Cache -> JSP/Dynamic HTML/Static
> >HTML -> Data Cache (optional) -> Database
> >
> >Confused ?
>
> Not as confused as the parent of those kids you're supposed to be babysitting
> .. :-)
Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 16:38:50 CDT