Re: Informix at Walmart

Thanks for the info. Our application is written by an application software vendor. Alot of the database utilization is driven by the way they design and rite their application. It is a transaction-based (OLTP) system to do registration and billing. Still a relatively small database and will not be used for alot of decision support functions. There will be large queries run to pull some massive reports but no real OLAP processing. Again, thanks for your assistance. TBoard In article <5aojcu$lfn@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>, wloftis@ix.netcom.com(Wesley Loftis, Jr.) wrote: >Walmart is a large company and most likely has applications on several >of the DBMS's that are available today. > >The main question should be. What is the size and type of application >running in Informix 5.xx, 7.xx, or XPS 8.xx? > >It is my understanding that Walmart is a very large user of NCR 5100 >Worldmart and NCR Teradata DBMS for very large decision support and >warehouse applications. Does your application fit this category? > >What is the size of your database? Do you a good production user >profile (ad hoc or controlled queries, concurrent users, etc)? Make >sure you a making maximum use of your CPU's and memory.. > >Informix loves more memory and more CPU's. Cash can usually fix any >tuning problem. > >Good luck, >Wes > > >In <5ai8nh$rtv@nw101.infi.net> tdboard@roanoke.infi.net (tdboard) >writes: >> >>It is my understanding that the retail giant, Walmart, uses Informix >RDBMS >>technology. Can anyone tell me which version they are running and on >what >>platform? >> >>We have an Informix 7.13 engine running on a RS6000 model R30 with 4 >>processors running AIX 4.1. Right now our peformance is rather good. >We are >>concerned about performance as our Informix user base grows. I'm >looking for >>some large installations from which to do some informal benchmarking. > >> >> >>Thanks in advance. >>TBoard >