Re: Very Large Database Support Inquiry...
Date: 4 Feb 1995 16:23:22 GMT
Message-ID: <3h09lq$nh_at_ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
In <3gooom$etf_at_tattoo.twinsun.com> burzin_at_twinsun.com (Burzin Engineer) writes:
>
>In article <goodman_alan-2601952025400001_at_168.87.77.14>
goodman_alan_at_tandem.com (Alan Goodman) writes:
>>In article <D2vB5t.1x6_at_tfs.com>, marcs_at_tfs.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig)
wrote:
>>
>>: Greeting,
>>: I'm try to locate some real world cases that have used one
of
>>: the popular RDBMS products to manage Very Large Databases - on the
>>: order of 500 Gigabyte to 1 Terabyte. What I have on hear-say is
that
>>: Oracle does a so-so job, Informix is supposed to do a good job but
is
>>: too new and unproven and Sybase is pretty much unusable since it has
>>: some sort of problem scaling past 4-CPUs on an SMP system.
>>:
>>: Can anyone comment? Recommend?
>>:
>>: Thanx,
>>: _Marc
>>
>>Marc,
>>
>>If you are interested in doing decision support this size database
then you
>>are limited to only two vendors with good real world examples. These
are Tandem
>>NonStop SQL and AT&T Teradata.
>>
>>If you are also interested in transaction processing then your choice
is
>>limited to one - Tandem NonStop SQL.
>
>This is not true anymore. Business sense finally dictated that being a
>world leader in DSS or batch DBS was not enough in the growing demand
for
>OLTP type DB's. AT&T Teradata has just put a beta release of
>the Teradata DBS Unix Port, whose first impressions make it ideal for
OLTP
>type work. I think its called NSDBS and runs on NCR 3550 which runs
>Unix System V.
>BTW the company is now called ATT Global Information Solutions.
>WWW access:http://www.attgis.com/
>
>>Of course I am biased, but you will probably get the same answer from
most
>>independant consultants also.
>>
>>Alan
>>goodman_alan_at_tandem.com
>>
>>(see also http://www.tandem.com/)
>
>Of course my opinions are mine and mine alone.. #include <disclaimer.h>
>
>Burzin
>
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/jim (Oracle Rdb query optimizer)
Opinions expressed are purely my own. Received on Sat Feb 04 1995 - 17:23:22 CET