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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Raw partitions (was: Re: Unix machines for large databases)
Message-ID: <7873@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 88 14:05:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.7873
References: <564@hscfvax.harvard.edu> <3102@edm.UUCP> <2728@geac.UUCP> <439@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <572@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <572@hscfvax.harvard.edu> by pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov):
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| > 2) The throughput is *improved*, since all file system handling is
| >    bypassed.  ORACLE is typically running on very few and very large
| > Bjorn Engsig @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
| > 
|   Improved over what ??  
+---------------

Imporved over (e.g.) Informix.  Which is why there is now Informix-Turbo...
which uses raw database partitions.  (The difference was obvious when I
moved a Unify database (30MB) from a file to a disk partition.)
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