Re: How to choose a DB

Posted in 1999

Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:45:15 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: spam@admin.u.nu (Miguel Cruz) > >Mark Townsend <mtownsen@us.oracle.com> wrote: > > Miguel - you mentioned a requirement for transparent or near transparent > > clustering - can I ask you what for ? > >The goal is scalability - availability is an added plus but not the primary >factor at this point. The client app will be delivering relatively complex >queries which I fear will overload a single server at some point, so I need >to be sure that the road we head down will not dead end when that happens. DSS or OLTP? Anyway, I reckon that Informix is *way* more scalable than Oracle. Just a pity the a$$40135 won't do benchmarks to prove it. :-( ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com