RE: Top Databases Used
Date: 2000/04/12
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So where does your e-commerce site lead to anyway?
Will
>===== Original Message From "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio_at_hotmail.com> =====
>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...
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Received on Wed Apr 12 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST