Re: 1.5 TB Warehouse: Informix or DB2/MVS?

Posted in 1995

Neil Raden — 30 Dec 1995 03:00:23 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In <4c0f6p$dtd@news.informix.com> Dave Watson <dwatson@informix.com> writes: > >The new Informix parallel loader has loaded over 100GB/hr on MPP >and 30GB/hr on SMP. It does the translations of datatypes. Take a >look at a paper at www.dbintellect.com for real life experience. Whoa! Shield's up. What does this mean? What kind of MPP and SMP boxes are we talking about here? And what does load mean? Unless it means incremental load with modify, including full RI and indexing, it ain't loading in my book. If it is, I'm impressed. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Neil Raden - nraden@ix.netcom.com or NRaden@aol.com _/ _/ Archer Decision Sciences, Inc. _/ 133 E. De La Guerra Street _/ Santa Barbara, CA 93101 _/ _/Decision Support, Data Warehousing Consulting _/ CA: 805.963.0017 NY: 914.987.9528 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/