Re: ORACLE VLM

Posted in 1995

Lee Parsons — Sun, 27 Aug 1995 00:27:22 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Matthias Dolder <matthias@zuo.dec.com> wrote: >> >>Does anyone out there have knowledge of/experience with ORACLE VLM >>(Very Large Memory)? Particularly, what version of standard ORACLE >>does it equate with in terms of features, e.g. snapshots, dynamic SQL in >>PL/SQL, etc.? Is it a radically different product or just ORACLE with gobs >>of RAM and incredible performance because you can cache the entire >>database, etc.? > >Apart from the >possibilities to use db_block_size of 32k and to have SGA's with sizes >way beyond 2GB (meaning for example any number of db_block_buffers), >this is the normal Oracle 7.2.2. Which brings up the next logical question. Why doesn't Sybase/Informix have a similar product? If Oracle VLM is just Oracle with the cache limitations taken out, I would have expected S and I to have similar product just for marketing reasons. Anybody know if they have tried something like this? -- Regards, Lee E. Parsons lparsons@eskimo.com