RE: Top Databases Used

So where does your e-commerce site lead to anyway? Will >===== Original Message From "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> ===== >From: Frank1 <karthiksNOkaSPAM@citiesnetwork.com.invalid> > >> Try tpc.org for hard numbers on different database performance. > >Well, and I'm not standing up for the idiots here, but Informix haven't done >a TPC-C benchmark for ages. So it's not really a valid basis for comparison. > >>and if u want to know what DBs some of the big sites use go to >>PC Magazine's web site and look for a Oct 19th 1999 article >>titled "What makes the Big sites run" > >What, on PCs? :0) > >Anyway, what makes big sites run is huge chunks of shiny tin. :-) > >I'm at "a leading UK e-commerce site" and we serve something like 200 >pages/second in peak time. Before we went to pooled connections, we had over >2000 active connections reported by onstat -u when we got busy. And I heard >that the *home* page has something like 60 stored procedure calls in it. Go >figure. Anyway, I'm quite happy with _database_ performance. The stuff on >the front is a whole 'nother thing... >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------