Xref: utzoo comp.arch:4716 comp.databases:982 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!pacbell!rtech!milbery 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 Lines: 25 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