Title: RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???
Ross, glad to see you're starting to come up to speed here. :)
|| Only with the help of the listers, Steve! Thanks..
But for the clustering to work, businesses would have to change software
and segment the data
The CNet authors
Name one company who wouldn't try to tweak a benchmark test in an
unrealistic and/or deceptive fashion in order to make a few more sales.
Oracle is guiltier than most and has made an art of it. Aren't benchmarks
supposed to help us make better decisions? Instead they just add to the
confusion.
We have a 175 terabyte database in Objectivity. It houses event data from a physics
experiments looking at the decay of B-mesons and their antimatter counterparts, trying
to find out what's going on with CP violation.
Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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