Re: Top Databases Used

From: David Williams <djw_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk>
Date: 2000/04/16
Message-ID: <DmtOmDAxme+4EwLd_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk>#1/1


In article <sfhai3ecivv51_at_news.supernews.com>, Carlos Bolden <1cbolden_at_bellsouth.net> writes
>Well it depends on all what you will be doing with your database. OLTP
>"based stuff" Informix, no doubt, fastest in the market at oltp with little
>or no headaches.
>
>Warehousing data of 1 terabyte or more, Teradata, period. Easy to manage,
>DBA's dream. "Stuff's not running fast, Add more Nodes and more disk". The
>only drawback is that it is very expensive. Going this route, make sure
>your ROI is high and this is what you want.

  What about Informix XPS? Also can add more nodes/disk. I have heard it   scale up to 176 nodes!!

-- 
David Williams
Received on Sun Apr 16 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST

Original text of this message