Re: Very Large Database Support Inquiry...

I am Marc E. Strohwig (marcs_at_tfs.com) 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?

Have you looked at something like uniVerse from Vmark Software? They have several sites running over a 1000 active users, and they scale well with SMP's. Not sure if it specifically handles that kind of load, but it's worth checking into. New York Public Library runs on universe, for example. Vmark's at 800-486-9636. Anheuser Busch also runs Vmark products, but Vmark has two different database products, and I'm not sure which one Busch runs. I consult using universe all the time, but personally I've never done anything nearly that big, usually nothing bigger than 20 gig at most. Good luck.

jeff g. Received on Tue Feb 14 1995 - 21:11:36 CET