Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:36:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Victor M. Mondragon A." <mdragon@vera.net> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial Database Use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911110001090.17928-100000@mail.vera.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991110220244.00ac2e40@email.eden.rutgers.edu>
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Carroll Kong wrote:
> I have deeply considered solaris + oracle instead, but I have a strong
> desire and trust in FreeBSD. Does anyone have any advice they can give me
> on this? Thanks deeply in advance.
I have asked the Oracle people 'when will they release the FreeBSD
version' and they replied that it is not in their current plans
that expand to the second quarter of 2000.
We are happy here with Oracle (for Linux) running on FreeBSD (12 Gigs
database) but the same thing performs better on Linux to be honest.
(Even if not using the raid on Linux) They are equal machines
(HP-Netservers LH4 with a lot of memory and 5-9 Gb. 10,000 rpm disks).
FreeBSD outperforms Linux and Solaris on networking so our WWW
and anything that has to do with internet runs on FreeBSD.
The tricky (an very undesirable) part is that all queries to the database
are sent to another host which resolves them and sends back the
data to the httpd server. All this needs to be done because we
haven't been able to assemble an Apache/mod_perl/DBI-DBD{Oracle,Solid}
on FreeBSD 3.3-stable.
On the other hand, I feel much more 'secure' when the data resides on the
Sun, somehow Oracle feels more at home.
IMHO __Oracle on (sparc) Solaris__ is the way to go (if you can afford
it).
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