Re: So now Informix has RAC

I love RAC.

I have logged more overtime because of Oracle, it is _the_ most fabulous
database ever concocted.

Oracle, My father thanks you, my mother thanks you, and _I_ thank you!

*>:o)

-ID-

Ian Michael Gumby wrote:
> 16 nodes?
> Kind of puny when you think of it.
> But what is Amazon doing with their RAC? Load Balancing and uptime?
> 
> I really wonder what configuration of IDS would be comparable. But alas,

> such a benchmark would violate Oracle's License, so we'll never know.
> 
> What happens when Grid computing starts to take off?
> Or Data Warehousing as A Service (DWaaS) ? (Not that I believe in DWaaS 
> as a viable business model...)
> 
> The point is that you can only toss so much hardware at a problem until 
> you hit a max performance "wall".
> 
> Sorry Daniel, but when you have 128 "nodes" in you RAC, then you have 
> shown scalability. And even that may be small for some of the potential 
> use cases.
> And even 128 "nodes" could be considered small down the road.
> 
> I guess another issue would be the price per node running Oracle. I sure

> wouldn't want to run it on those nifty new T2 processors.
> 
> -G
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:01:14 -0700
>  > From: damorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  > Subject: Re: So now Informix has RAC
>  > To: informix-list@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  >
>  > Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
>  > > ibmsoftwarequestions@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
>  > >> On 29 Apr, 22:44, dcrunch...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>  > >>>
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/IBM-UnCages-Cheetah-2-Data-Server/
>  > >>>
>  > >>> "IDS (Informix Dynamic Sever) 11.5, code-named "Cheetah 2,"
builds on
>  > >>> the
>  > >>> failover-recovery capabilities of its predecessor by now 
> sup****ting full
>  > >>> read/write transactions across all nodes. The last version of IDS

> only
>  > >>> sup****ted
>  > >>> reads on secondary nodes, the company said."
>  > >> Great news from IBM and shows continued commitment to Informix and
>  > >> developing Informix technology.
>  > >
>  > > I don't think it's fair to compare Cheetah 2 to RAC: Cheetah 2 will

> scale.
>  > > :o)
>  >
>  > Unlike those 16 node RAC clusters at Amazon.com eh.
>  >
>  > But heck it is safer to trumpet something that has never been put
into
>  > production than to look at examples of sites that have been running
for
>  > years.
>  > --
>  > Daniel A. Morgan
>  > University of Wa****ngton
>  > damorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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