Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

On 5 Nov 98, at 17:24, Alessio Milan wrote: > > On 5 Nov 98, at 10:56, Alessio Milan wrote: > > > > > "Dariusz Tomon" <darek.tomon@uzp.gov.pl> writes: > > > > > > > Genelmen > > > > > > > > I got the task to choose the database for my company (Polish > > > > Information Agency). The main task of the database would be: manage > > > > of 1000000 scanned pictures (high resolution each +-30 MB) > > > > > > What? 1000000 * 30 MB = 30 TeraByte!! > > > What kind of database can store and manage such amount of data? > > > > Informix or Oracle. Informix is working on a NASA project where > > they're mapping out the earth, and they're gathering 1TB of data > > _per_day_! > > Gulp! Could you give me further info about this project? I can't, but I'm sure Informix can... :-) Best is to speak to your local sales office. -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________