[Info-vax] OpenVMS STARTUP Whitepaper

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-12-12 00:42:00 +0000, Jan-Erik Søderholm said:
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> It (Rdb) is a highly efficient design.

No doubt.

Oracle Rdb is also overkill for a system startup.

If a site happens to have Oracle Rdb licenses, and/or if Rdb is 
familiar or is otherwise deemed necessary, and/or if the site needs a 
platform-specific mid-range database and has the budget for it, by all 
means use Rdb.

SQLite does all that is needed for a startup procedure.

And yes, like Rdb, SQLite also directly accesses the data, and not a 
client-server connection to a database server.

Though often thought of as small, SQLite scales to larger database 
files than permissible with OpenVMS with the 2 TiB ODS-2 and ODS-5 
addressing limitations, too.

If client-server is required, MariaDB is an option. A port of MariaDB 
is available for OpenVMS, though that port was—for various 
previously-discussed reasons—not the most current.



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