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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Why don't liberal Democrats stand up and say, "I am liberal and proud of it!"? Conservatives would respect them more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
