Re: Oracle RAC for scalability or High Availability only

JEDIDIAH wrote:

>>No more or less so than any other method of satisfying the same
>>overhead. One can always choose to favour the networks by just limiting

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> 	That overhead DOESN'T EXIST in a non-clustered solution. 

And that overhead is a known percentage of CPU and easily compensated for.

It might interest you to know that the overhead of maintaining indexes doesn't exist in many non-relational database solutions. Planning to use on?

Didn't think so.

> A single system != a collection of systems.

Correct. Single systems fail.

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