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From: steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases
Message-ID: <3091@edm.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 11:12:31 GMT
References: <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Organization: Unexsys Systems, Edmonton,AB.
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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.  Yes, there are a

I think (from the propaganda I've heard) that something like oracle might sorta
fit your bill. One of the ways that they do this is by use of raw disk I/O
rather than putting the data base into the filesytem space.
  I assume that SMD drives are fast enough for you?

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