On Thu, 17 May 2001, Daniel O. Escasa wrote:
..
> > well at least in the smallest (100GB) database category..
> >
> > http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/h-ttperf.idc
> >
> > that only goes to show, linux is a mature database OS. claims of others
> > notwithstanding.
>
> Uhmm, yeah, but the hardware it ran on was an SGI, wasn't it? I
> couldn't tell, because I looked at it from my OpenBSD partition, and
> the fonts were off, as usual. However, the price/TPC (?) did look on
> the high side, almost double that of the WinTel servers. Point being,
> how well did Linux fare on WinTel servers? If NT still did better, I'm
> afraid all the test says is that you should run small database apps on
> Linux-on-SGI instead of on NT-on-x86.
It was running on a 4-way cluster composed of quad-processor SGI 1450 Xeon
boxes. So it had twice the number of processors as the second-placer
Compaq. The Compaq was a single machine with 8 processors.
The price was also stupendous -- $ 1000000 or so. But that's all
irrelevant. Vendors (in this case IBM) loaded the deck to get good
results, but I doubt most people with 100GB databases have the luxury of
16 or even 8 processors. I would think on a 100GB data load, a 4-way
processor and good disk is most appropriate.
The point made here (as acknowledged by the Microsoft guy in charge of
databases -- actually a good, reasoned response, no FUD there)..
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2760874,00.html
is that now M$ has competition in the 100GB space, which was more or less
left to it by default because the big boys wanted to compete in the more
prestigious and higher-margin 300GB+ areas.
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