Re: Top Databases Used

From: Frank1 <karthiksNOkaSPAM_at_citiesnetwork.com.invalid>

> Try tpc.org for hard numbers on different database performance.

Well, and I'm not standing up for the idiots here, but Informix haven't done a TPC-C benchmark for ages. So it's not really a valid basis for comparison.

>and if u want to know what DBs some of the big sites use go to
>PC Magazine's web site and look for a Oct 19th 1999 article
>titled "What makes the Big sites run"

What, on PCs? :0)

Anyway, what makes big sites run is huge chunks of shiny tin. :-)

I'm at "a leading UK e-commerce site" and we serve something like 200 pages/second in peak time. Before we went to pooled connections, we had over 2000 active connections reported by onstat -u when we got busy. And I heard that the *home* page has something like 60 stored procedure calls in it. Go figure. Anyway, I'm quite happy with _database_ performance. The stuff on the front is a whole 'nother thing...