Re: Real reason for Oracle/Orbitz problem?

From: rkusenet <rkusenet_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:00:22 -0400
Message-ID: <bf6krq$btnu4$1@ID-75254.news.uni-berlin.de>

"arabin" <arabin_at_cecity.com> wrote

> Does anyone know what the problem was?

I work in the travel industry, so I am naturally interested.

From what I know, Orbitz uses only Oracle DB and not other stuff. Their search engine is totally memory based. In any travel industry site like Orbitz where there are million hits for searches, efficiency has to come from non database source because a database based search can be an impediment when it comes to scalability. So what Orbitz has done is to use a layer to map search data (stored in Oracle) into memory (C programs) and use LISP to do the actual searches. I think for other task, like booking a ticket and storing an intinerary they must be using Oracle.

rk- Received on Thu Jul 17 2003 - 12:00:22 CDT