| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
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I know that Sybase has problems supporting large database under VMS due to it's single file structure and bound volumes. Is this also true under Ultrix? Also... Does anyone have any idea what the largest Sybase database currently is? My prospect is trying to support 200+ gigabytes under Ultrix & Sybase. Any comments??? Thanx, Paul [cross-filed in Ultrix/SQL]
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| 716.1 | Oh No! | POBOX::BOOTH | Bo knows MUMPS | Wed Aug 15 1990 21:55 | 16 |
Now that I've stopped laughing...
Sybase has a couple of VERY LARGE databases owned by Wall Street firms.
Those accounts will tell you that when it comes to support, "money is
no object." Sybase can handle large databases, but only with excellent
support. It is logisitics and operations support that will hurt on a
database that size. Things like backup, restore, recovery, etc. that
are trivial to smaller databases (that most Sybase customers have) get
to be critical with very large databases. The Sybase customer base is
HEAVILY weighted toward small workstation databases. There are precious
few big ones.
Trying to put 200+ Gb. on Ultrix/Sybase would indicate to me that the
customer has extremely limited career goals.
---- Michael Booth
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| 716.2 | 75MB! | JENNA::SANTIAGO | VMS and U___, perrrfect together (DTN:352-2866) | Thu Aug 30 1990 22:20 | 13 |
i support wall street accounts which use sybase is REAL world update intensive applications; the largest system is used by the American Stock exchange on twin Sybase database which TOGETHER amount to 75MB; the log area for both add up to 150MB. This was originally a single 80MB database which was split due to disk contention and the inability to split off data tables (using V3.2). I have never seen a successful system under sybase above the above size. I once worked on one for Bear Stearns but the customer threw them out. As Slybase only provides 3-4 year limited licences, they were trying to milk them for 1-2M for each license extension. The have since migrated to Interbace due to cost reasons. /los | |||||