Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!mirror!frog!barr From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Info on database hardware Summary: Charles River Data Systems *currently* adds on to VAXen Message-ID: <15388@frog.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 90 00:54:00 GMT References: <3298@avocado4.UUCP> Organization: Charles River Data Systems Lines: 25 In article , cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: > In article <3298@avocado4.UUCP> palat@motcid.UUCP (Mohan Palat) writes: > > 1. Are there any commercial database machines or database engines > designed to handle very large databases in an oltp environment? > > Although Oracle hasn't done it themselves, a couple of VARs for Oracle have > built accelerator systems for Oracle (Charles River Data) or special > configurations for Oracle (Independence Technologies) for OLTP needs. I Our 'Relational Accelerators' currently offer 1-2 GB of storage and run Oracle backends, like a server, but achieve exceptionally high OLTP benchmarks with VAX/VMS frontends. Oracle Complex Systems Corp, a VAR arm of Oracle, resells our systems. A similar agreement, entailing more development, was announced some months ago between Charles River & Teradata. A more powerful class of systems is under development - stay tuned. Our system is called 'accelerator' as distinguished from 'server' because exceptional price/performance is its stock in trade. Also, current users are uniquely VAX/VMS Oracle users who needed better performance but preferred to add our box than get a larger VAX, ergo: 'accelerate' existing performance. Chris Barr !mit-eddie!frog!barr