[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86-64 and RDB and DB's in general on OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/29/2015 8:25 AM, Dirk Munk wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/28/2015 9:49 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> OpenVMS clustering is — as I've been commenting for a while — not
>>> necessary for many large-scale environments, and clustering doesn't
>>> provide particularly large-scale configurations by present-day
>>> standards.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> A few snippets.
>>
>> Cassandra
>>
>> http://cassandra.apache.org/
>>
>> <quote>
>> One of the largest production deployments is Apple's, with over 75,000
>> nodes storing over 10 PB of data. Other large Cassandra installations
>> include Netflix (2,500 nodes, 420 TB, over 1 trillion requests per day),
>> Chinese search engine Easou (270 nodes, 300 TB, over 800 million reqests
>> per day), and eBay (over 100 nodes, 250 TB).
>> </quote>
>>
>
> I had a look at the Cassandra home page, and it didn't make me happy. To
> start with it doesn't even say for which OS it is written. It's Linux of
> course, but which type? Which version? x86 Linux only? 32 bit and 64
> bit? There's also a Windows version, but again no information about 32
> bit or 64 bit. And it hasn't been tested on Windows 8. I've got news for
> them, Windows 8.1 is current, and Windows 10 is around the corner.

Cassandra is Java.

It would probaly run on VMS on an ODS-5 disk just by modifying a
few scripts.


> Why is it that the people who make these web sites can't even write down
> the simplest information. That's always the problem with these projects,
> simple straight forward documentation. The software may be fine, but it
> is such a pain to get all the information you need to get it running.
> One more reason to like VMS I suppose.

I am pretty sure that Java must be mentioned somewhere.

In that world being OS dependent is a thing of the past.

Arne