Re: Very Large DB

Doug Barnes wrote in message <3519046D.F85_at_rell.NOSPAM.com>...
>Jason D. Weil wrote:
>>
>> I am leading a development effort that will result in a multi-billion
>> row database, on the order of 400GB. About 80% of this database could
>> properly reside in a single partitioned table, each row being fairly
>> small. There is some contention within our organization as to whether to
>> implement this as a completely relational database (using Oracle 8), or
>> to implement the largest table as flat files and use Oracle as a front
>> end for accessing these data. Does anyone have experience with this type
>> of problem? Have you had success with either of these approaches, or is
>> there another, better, candidate?
>
>Sure would hate to do a full table scan on that thing.

At the risk of sounding like self-promotion, this is a fairly easy problem for NCR Teradata. Have you looked into it? Customer and industry analyst references at

    http://www3.ncr.com/teradata/

steve.hummel
NCR Corp.
Parallel Systems Division San Diego Received on Fri Mar 27 1998 - 00:00:00 CET