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From: nick@bilpin.UUCP (Nick Price)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: ORACLE REL 6, INGRES REL 6
Keywords: ORACLE, INGRES, RELEASE 6
Message-ID: <1588@bilpin.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 08:02:02 GMT
Organization: SRL, London, England
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Does anyone have  any information about the proposed release
schedules for INGRES and ORACLE release 6 under Unix. Also any
porting issues, problems, comments on the new architectures,
performance issues would be appreciated, particularly relating
to the 'transaction processing' capability announced by ORACLE.

Here's another thought -- Many multi-processor Unix machines are
appearing on the market now, both loosley coupled (NCR Tower 8XX),
and tightly coupled (Sequent), to mention just two. In my experience
RDBMS performance can become an issue in such an environment, 
particularly where bottle-necks are introduced by a single server
architecture. Shared memory accesses between processors is another
cause for concern. Anybody else want to share their thoughts.


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