Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

Posted in 1998

Alessio Milan — Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:24:20 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> From: "Billy Wheeler" <billy@west.co.za> > Organization: The West Solutions Group > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:01:04 +0200 > > 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? -- am