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Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs

Posted by timothy on from the your-fries-come-with-lobster dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "For some time, Intel has been offering custom-tweaked chips to big customers. While most of the companies that have taken them up on this offer, like Facebook and eBay, put the chips into servers meant for internal use, Oracle will now be selling systems running on custom Xeons directly to end users. Those customers need to be careful about how they configure those systems, though: in the new Oracle 12c, the in-memory database option, which costs $23,000 per processor, is turned on by default."

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  1. Re:Sales flow chart. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DB/2? What about PostgreSQL?

    Because PostgreSQL doesn't support shared-storage, active-active clusters. PostgreSQL "clusters" use replication to provide a warm standby using separate storage.

    So you need twice the (high-speed) disk storage for a PostgreSQL solution.

    That's just the database. Now you need to add clustering/HA to that, with pgpool. And pgpool is a turd. Yeah, it's better than NO standby/cluster. But set up a test PostgreSQL/pgpool cluster and really start beating on it - pull some plugs, shut down hardware, "kill -9" some database and/or pgpool processes. And watch pgpool piss all over itself.

    In short, if you want a true clustered database solution, it's Oracle or DB2.