Re: Oracle vs DB2 on heavy OLTP loads

From: <dbguy456_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 16 May 2005 17:16:34 -0700
Message-ID: <1116288994.571218.14630@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

> Some others that profess to be industry-strength do not.
Are there any others besides Oracle and DB2? :-)

> The RAC is optional, but a hell of an easy way to save money by not
needing to go to big SMB boxes.
C'm on, properly designed OLTP app in most cases can get 100M transactions/day (or 200000/minute assuming even distribution over 8-hour workday) on a single 4-CPU box; and 100M/day is a huuuuuge number, which is more than NYSE and NASDAQ transaction numbers combined.

> DB2's clustering is NOT the same. Has other advantages and
disadvantages.
I know, but as we're not interested in either one, it becomes a moot issue.

> The customer put it into service 24x7x265 under a MUCH higher load.
Sadly
I can not discuss that part as I left under NDA. As usual, just as it started to become interesting - it's all over :-(. Received on Mon May 16 2005 - 19:16:34 CDT