Xref: utzoo comp.arch:4678 comp.databases:976 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases Message-ID: <564@hscfvax.harvard.edu> Date: 6 May 88 13:06:56 GMT References: <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <3091@edm.UUCP> Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University Lines: 13 In article <3091@edm.UUCP>, steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes: > From article <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu>, by billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O): > > Help! By Friday we need to know if there is a Unix-based box that > > can work as a very high-performance data-base server. Yes, there are a > > I think (from the propaganda I've heard) that something like oracle might sort > a fit your bill. One of the ways that they do this is by use of raw disk I/O > rather than putting the data base into the filesytem space. > But using raw disk i/o per se doesn't guarantee anything, does it ? I think that the most relevant part of your message was the phrase in the parens. greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny