I'm in the very initial phases of designing a large database using
OPS 9.1 on COMPAQ Alpha Servers. The requirements for the DB are as
follows :
- There will be a huge amount of data insertions required to be done,
on the avg of 2.5 Gigabytes per hour.
- All these inserts are of similar type and we need to do a lot of
selects also from this inserted data later on after a short while (may
be not that real time that as soon as the row is inserted, its made
available for select immediatly, but whenever the select query is run,
it should be fast).
In the above process, I've found that at least 75 attributes are there
which I need to insert into my DB. Almost all these 75 attributes will
be used in seperate queries of selects later on.
Now the question is - How should I design my database. I wish a very
good performance of insertion (space isn't a problem, i've got 10 Tera
Bytes to store), wish to make use of OPS to Maximum. Parallaly I wish
to give a good performance for selects too, which may be made after
some time of a row insertion. Should I create indexes? What all
paramters should I take care while designing such a kind of DB?
Thanx in advance
