[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Dave Froble]

On 6/27/2019 10:22 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/27/2019 10:07 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 6/27/2019 5:02 PM, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> From a performance perspective, RDb on OpenVMS is probably, but not
>>> certainly, superior to Oracle-Oracle. They'll probably need more
>>> capacity (Memory, CPU) to run Oracle-Oracle with similar performance.
>>
>> While I'm not a user, one thing has occurred to me.
>>
>> Back in the day, when everything ran on one CPU, it didn't matter
>> which process was running, the CPU could do only one at a time.
>>
>> Now today, with lots of CPUs (cores), multiple things can occur
>> simultaneously, and if every user is waiting on the Oracle engine to
>> service their needs, it probably is harder to scale that up, than to
>
> The Oracle database engine is multi-threaded, so it can service
> multiple requests in parallel.
>
> Arne
>
>

I figured that.  But my question was about scaling up, and that is still 
my question.  Which is easier and better to scale up?

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