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[John Summerfield]

> > > > > OK Christian, I'll bite ......  what's a serious database?
> > > >
> > > > 1 Tb and up.
> > >
> > > Hmmm.  Then a number of Bank databases that't I've worked alongside
> aren't
> > > serious :-)
> >
> > They're "somewhat" serious. They're probably using software that can
> > handle serious databases though.
> 
> True enough. In my experience they've almost universally used Oracle (except
> for the IBM mainframe bigots ( :-) ) who have a fixation with DB2). My
> experience of Oracle shows it to be heavyweight, but *extremely* capable.

A couple of years ago, I read an article about the ten largest daabases in 
the world. Some were larger than 1 Tb. I think Oracle had most of them, 
DB2 and (I think) Sybase the others: could have been Informix.


In contrast, PostgresSQL struggles with a database small enough to fit 
entirely in RAM.

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John Summerfield
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