Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

[Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 00:24 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:02 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > As an example, I tried to find a database which could support
> >
> > 	client-server architecture, client and server
> > 		on separate computers
> > 	8 million records
> > 	ten byte unique key, ~50 byte records
> > 	8500 probes per second, most of which would fail
> > 		to find a matching record, so would
> > 		plumb the entire depth of the database
> > 	automatic fail-over to another server when server goes down
> > 	fail-over must take place in 10ms or less
> > 	database can be updated at rate of 100+ records
> > 		per second while actively being probed
>
>
> Alpha VMS & the Rdb database (purchase by Oracle from DEC back in
> 1994) can *easily* handle this.
>
> It'll cost you, though.
>
> [snip]

I'm not going to go into details, because that wouldn't be
fair to them. And I'm sure that Rdb is a fine DBMS. But
Rdb was one of the systems I evaluated in about 1998 or so.

Let's not get into a debate.

Mike
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