Re: Very Large Database Support Inquiry...

In article <goodman_alan-2601952025400001@168.87.77.14> goodman_alan@tandem.com (Alan Goodman) writes: >In article <D2vB5t.1x6@tfs.com>, marcs@tfs.com (I am Marc E. Strohwig) wrote: > >: Greeting, >: I'm try to locate some real world cases that have used one of >: the popular RDBMS products to manage Very Large Databases - on the >: order of 500 Gigabyte to 1 Terabyte. What I have on hear-say is that >: Oracle does a so-so job, Informix is supposed to do a good job but is >: too new and unproven and Sybase is pretty much unusable since it has >: some sort of problem scaling past 4-CPUs on an SMP system. >: >: Can anyone comment? Recommend? >: >: Thanx, >: _Marc > >Marc, > >If you are interested in doing decision support this size database then you >are limited to only two vendors with good real world examples. These are Tandem >NonStop SQL and AT&T Teradata. > >If you are also interested in transaction processing then your choice is >limited to one - Tandem NonStop SQL. This is not true anymore. Business sense finally dictated that being a world leader in DSS or batch DBS was not enough in the growing demand for OLTP type DB's. AT&T Teradata has just put a beta release of the Teradata DBS Unix Port, whose first impressions make it ideal for OLTP type work. I think its called NSDBS and runs on NCR 3550 which runs Unix System V. BTW the company is now called ATT Global Information Solutions. WWW access:http://www.attgis.com/ >Of course I am biased, but you will probably get the same answer from most >independant consultants also. > >Alan >goodman_alan@tandem.com > >(see also http://www.tandem.com/) Of course my opinions are mine and mine alone.. #include <disclaimer.h> Burzin -- -- Burzin N. Engineer |Tel. (310) 524 1800 | email: burzin@twinsun.com Twin Sun Inc. |Fax. (310) 524 1818 | MIME OkaY!