[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/24/2022 9:45 PM, IanD wrote:
> I wonder how fast rdb on x86 hardware will be?
> 
> We could never fix the database Page Size on some of our databases as
> they could not be exported/imported with a new options definition due
> to their large sizes (some projections calculated we would need more
> than a two week outage! - that was on an Alpha GS1280 though)

A lot of database work is IO bound not CPU bound.

SSD disks would speed up things a lot.

> What a fantastic product rdb was/is, shame Digital 'gave it away', I
> wonder if Oracle would ever consider selling it back to VSI ?

I think it was a big mistake to sell Rdb to Oracle back then.
There were obviously a lot of money to be made.

But today? The VMS market has shrunk a lot. And I suspect
most totally new development would go for MySQL/MariaDB or
PostgreSQL (when it becomes available). Unless Oracle
is willing to sell it cheap then I don't see a good
business case for VSI. And selling cheap is not Larry's
MO.

Arne