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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
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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