Re: High-Speed/Volume Database

"Bob Smith" <gatesucks_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:b87ff855.0205060836.198e5013_at_posting.google.com...
> We are designing an application that needs to use
> a relational database to hold quite a large amount
> of data.
>
> In particular there is one table that has about 33
> fields, 18 indexes, and 120 bytes per record.
> Additionally, we are going to need to add about 2
> million records per day to the table, delete about 2
> million records per day from the table, hold 2 weeks
> worth of data within the database (approx. 30 million
> records), and sustain an average add rate of about 23
> records per second while, at the same time, sustaining
> an average delete rate of 23 records per second.
>
> My questions are, what database software should we use,
> what kind of hardware platform will be needed to
> support the specifications enumerated above, and what
> kind of average query performance can we expect?

You recently posted this to news:comp.databases.sybase Are you seeking advice on a specific vendor? I understand the issue of having a moving window of data hence your 2M delete/inserts.

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