Re: Can Oracle On AIX support Terabyte plus Database ?

jrichmond_at_i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) wrote:
>
>In article <324B2601.1206_at_ix.netcom.com>
>Walter Muntzenberger <wmuntz_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Ofer Gal wrote:
>>>
>>> In the Company I work For people rely on DB2 for the huge volumes
>>> can I get responses from other who have been there ?
>>> Some numbers
>>> The platforms
>>> The companies that use Oracle for real big databases and so on ?
>>> Please any response is important.
>>
>> Oracle Parallel Server on the IBM SP has several large sites which
 are
>> in the 500GB to 1TB range now. At the CPP conference in Chicago a
 couple
>> of weeks ago, the customers who presented included USWest, John Alden
>> Insurance, La Caixa (Spanish Bank), Federal Express and Shopko.
>>
>> There are many other large database references for Oracle such as
>> Fingerhut, but these are more distributed architecutres, not parallel
>> ones necessarily.
>>
>
>I am involved in an SP2 implementation in Switzerland ... we have been
>warned that OPS on the SP2 is less than stable. Another site in
>Switzerland is having huge problems with their SP2 and OPS. I
>remain unconvinced that this solution is viable at the moment.
>

I'm working on 30 GIG Oracle DB (AIX 4.1, parallel server and so on). Coming to this environment from large DB2 shop I can just tell you that it's pure disaster. Support is terrible, db administration is nightmare. Stick with DB2 if you can.
Yuri Received on Thu Oct 03 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST