Re: Ask for information about XPS and Informix Metacube

In article <5lf25q$pru@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, James T Ford <James_T_Ford@fleet.com> writes > > > >______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ >Subject: Ask for information about XPS and Informix Metacube >Author: JEAN-FRANCOIS_LE-CARRE-PETIT@non-hp-france-om4.om.hp.com at Internet >Date: 5/15/97 12:45 PM > > >Hello, > >A customer of mine plans to install a datawarehouse, with Informix XPS, >and Informix Metacube, products that I don't know. The only information I >have got is the documents available on Informix Web site. > > I would strongly suggest you contact someone at informix. They >have an entire support team for XPS alone. > You cannot buy XPS wihtout buying a cosulting team to go with it! This was occuring to some UK pricing I got about 5 months ago. It was manadatory to buy a consulting team to go with XPS. > >Do you know what are features of Metacube Aggregator and of Metacube >Warehouse Manager, those products limits, Informix Online version I need >to install these products on an HP-UX 10.x platform ? >Does a HP-UX 9.04 version exist ? > > No clue on this one.. > >What are XPS advantages against Online-DSA ? > > Briefly, XPS (extended parallel server) runs across clusters you > could run it on a single node machine but that doesn't make sense to > me. It is designed to handle huge amounts of data > 700Gb. > Advantages - speed, fragmentation strategy, scalability. + one node (machine) can fail and another one will take over the disks of that machine (assuming it can access the disks of the failed machine). i.e. greater fault tolerance to node failures. > >jim > > > -- David Williams