Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

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_! -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________