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From: markd@rtech.UUCP (Mark P. Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases
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Date: 5 May 88 04:05:44 GMT
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From article <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu>, by billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O):
> Help! By Friday we need to know if there is a Unix-based box that
> can work as a very high-performance data-base server.  

Take a look at the Sequent Symmetry.  This tightly coupled
UNIX multiple processor is an optimum machine for running
Relational Databases.  In a recent project with Relational
Technology a sixteen processor Symmetry achieved 104 Transactions
per second running the Debit Credit Benchmark (TP1) on
a fully sized 1.1G Byte database, at a price performance ratio
at about 1/8 that of Tandem  (all of this was verfied by
the independent Codd & Date consulting group).  This is the  
fastest (by a factor of about three) any UNIX box has achieved
for this benchmark.  RTI, Oracle, Informix and Unify run Sequent
for their in-house applications.

Mark <>

PS  If anyone would like a full write up of this project send me
your postal address.
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Mark P. Diamond  		 {sun, cbosgd, amdahl, mtxinu}!rtech!markd
from Sequent Computer Systems onsite at Relational Technology