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From: milbery@rtech.UUCP (Jim Milbery)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases
Message-ID: <2069@rtech.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 15:28:07 GMT
References: <22126@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: milbery@rtech.UUCP (Jim Milbery)
Organization: Relational Technology Inc, Alameda CA
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In article <2050@rtech.UUCP> markd@rtech.UUCP (Mark P. Diamond) 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.  
>
>Take a look at the Sequent Symmetry.  This tightly coupled
>UNIX multiple processor is an optimum machine for running
>Relational Databases.

Relational Technology has been working with several unix-based 
multiprocessing machines with the INGRES product.

Significant performance gains can be had using cpu/io improvements
that these vendors offer.

Pyramid is also offering significant features in a balanced fashion
(cpu, disk i/o and terminal i/o) that INGRES can take advantage of.

No selling here, but INGRES is hot, and can take advantage of the
multiprocessing capabilities that Pyramid and Sequent and others offer.

** Opinions are my own and not necessarily RTI's.

jim Milbery, RTI Technical Support Burlington,MA