Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:04 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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.
1998, huh? It could be done back then. A co-worker was at ATT
Wireless back then and they used Rdb for their billing system.
Lots of inserts, lots of reads.
Needed (and needs) lots of expensive h/w, though.
> Let's not get into a debate.
No debate, just mentioning.
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