RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i

[Smith Colin-WCCS07 <Colin.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darnell Gadberry [mailto:darnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 June 2000 06:33
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i
> 
> 
> Eric,
> 
> You will be INCREDIBLY disappointed with the performance of 
> Oracle 8i on the
> RaQ. We use 8i extensively (and lots of RaQs as utility 

Other than disk I/O performance on the RAQs (being ATA based), I wouldn't
see why. Give it enough RAM and it should hardly have to touch disk.
However, I agree with the sentiment. Cobalt boxes, are decidedly low cost
boxes and this is no bad thing as far as I'm concerned but Oracle is a
decidedly high cost DB engine.

It just doesn't make sense to spend a fortune on $20,000 of Oracle licensing
and then stick it on low end $2,000 hardware. As the bloke says, go for a
lower end db system like MySQL or PostgreSQL or a higher end server box.