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Are There Large RDBMS Using Linux?

Posted by Hemos on from the big-honking-databases dept.

Jason Perlow of Linux Magazine writes:" With all of the recent computer press coverage of Amazon and Intel converting their web servers and other front end application servers to Linux, many of these stories neglect to mention that the back end systems these companies use still rely on commercial Unixes like Solaris, AIX and HPUX to host their RDBMSes (Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix) for their mission critical transactional applications and data mining. Are there any companies out there actively using Linux to host a mission-critical RDBMS ? or looking to replace UNIX with Linux for this purpose?"

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  1. testing -- ignore by sinator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    testing -- ignore this. thank you

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  2. Largest Oracle implementation on Linux by weeble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    VA Linux provided a PDF last year while we were buying hardware showing the largest Oracle implementation in the world was on Linux.

    I believe it was netapp

    If I find it I shall post it.

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  3. Re:Slashdot? by Airline_Sickness_Bag · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >Hmmm. True - but /. is hardly a Critical Mission.

    But it is continually ./ 'ed all of the time :).

    -asb

  4. Re:Real Unix is a lot better for mission Critical. by HeUnique · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It is really depend on your card's X driver (the module in XFree 4.x or the X server in XFree 3.X)

    I got 3 machines at home runnning Linux day and night with X running with Matrox G400 - I had few problems with DRI few months ago but now its rock stable..

    At my previous work I had been using NVidia Geforce-2 with their binary only drivers on Compaqs machines that I installed to all the developers (all developers running X and KDE) - had tons of problems with it (3D freezes the machine, exiting from X gives you a green "ghost" [yes, I didn't compile rivafb!] and some random lockups) - so it's really about drivers. Same shit with ATI's drivers and Windows..

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  5. Linux as infrastructure by CHAOSiTEC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, the place i work, (technical college), we use linux exclusivly for our back bone, we actually replaced our SCO UNIX with Red Hat Dist.

    Since the school only has a 8Mbit + 2Mbit connection to the outer world, we are heavily relying on servering pages from the internet faster than our real line can hold, and that we do with 2 transarent proxy servers, also using linux. it works great and our students dont feel the strain of our small real connection.