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- From: mark@uvmark.uucp (Mark Baldridge)
- Subject: Re: 500'000 records - who does best?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.173106.46790@uvmark.uucp>
- Sender: Mark A. Baldridge
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 17:31:06 GMT
- References: <18971@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: VMARK Software, Inc.
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- In article <18971@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
- >> Michael Perry writes:
- >> >500,000 records, averaging 30K *each*. Forget Sybase and Oracle on Suns;
- >> >go for a Teradata.
- >> Hmmm... given the price/performance of a Teradata I can only say: HUH?
- >>
- >> Makes _no_ sense [to me, anyways] to spend millions of dollars for Teradata
- >> stuff when a smaller SMP box would be a LOT more practical.
- >:-) Yes, it WOULD be a lot more practical, if it did the job. IF.
- >>
- >> >and what you are suggesting is probably outside the envelope already.
- >>
- >> Hmmm... outside the envelope. Kinda hard to imagine a 30-40 user system
- >> being outside the envelope, at least without a LOT more data to gnaw on.
- >
- >It isn't the number of users, it's the basic size of the tables.
- >One of our clients has pushed a table to 900k rows, 250Mb on an RS/6000
- >with 50Mb memory dedicated to the Sybase server. Working with it
- >feels like retiling the bathroom while an elephant uses the john.
- >
-
- Maybe I am missing something, but we routinely have customers with 250 to 800
- megabyte tables and 200-300 users on RS6000s. Earlier this year, we did a
- benchmark with 1600 users, all with under one or two (I do not remember now)
- second response time. The benchmark was to ensure that the fully configured
- system could handle the expected 2500 users.
-
- We user uniVerse.
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