Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?

From: "Maksim Likharev" <mlikharev(at)aurigin(dot)com>
To: "Ron Johnson" <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, "PgSQL General ML" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?
Date: 2003-08-26 18:27:36
Message-ID: 56510AAEF435D240958D1CE8C6B1770A016D2DF5@mailc03.aurigin.com
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>Don't think of this as a troll, because I really don't know, even
>though I do know that MVS, OpenVMS & Solaris can. (I won't even
>ask about toys like Windows and FreeBSD.)

What so toy in Windows?
With some experience on huge DBs,
one on Windows ( MS SQL 2K ) works x1.5/2 faster, than one on Linux/Sun
( pg 7.3.3 ).
Read-only transactions tho.

Is Linux ready for big dbs, I would say yes, with new kernel I say
definitely yes.

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