[Info-vax] VMS databases

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2023-11-19 22:22:37 +0000, Jan-Erik Söderholm said:

> Den 2023-11-19 kl. 18:37, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>> As with many things in IT, that depends.
>> 
>> Expectations and related sizes can also differ. What can be considered 
>> a small database for SQLite can potentially be considered a large 
>> database for OpenVMS, for instance.
>> 
>> Expectations? SQLite tops out at 256 TiB databases, while OpenVMS file 
>> storage tops out at 2 TiB files absent 'heroic' efforts.
> 
> A single Rdb database can have 8192 storage areas (individual files) so 
> the max database size would be something like 16.000 TiB.

So... Heroic _and_ expensive.



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