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Can you say what DB you are running? Is it Oracle?

• tom_b 15y ago
  Not unless they know some Oracle incantations I've not heard of. I'm going to guess some home-rolled column store similar to KDB. [EDIT] re: Oracle stuff I've not heard of - there is tons of Oracle scale/performance stuff I've never even had to think about. I've worked somewhere with KDB+ in place to handle streaming market price data and interviewed at another investment bank where it was used as well. So my guess is based more on what I've seen and read rather than knowing you couldn't build such a system on top of Oracle.
  • zwischenzug 15y ago
    Customers pressure us to use Oracle but we resist. I'm sure you can make it fast. Our argument is: why switch from what works; then it's "want to pay for it and be the first to use it"?
  • fendale 15y ago
    I've seen some Oracle systems push some big data around and handle pretty high trans per second, but I have never worked on any of these financial systems which seem to require more speed and trans per second than any system I have ever built or worked on. Personally I would love to see if Oracle can match these other systems out there, purely from an interest point of view!
• balakk 15y ago
  Probably Sybase ASE with Tcl as the scripting language. I've heard good things about Sybase replication capabilities.
  • zwischenzug 15y ago
    How did you get tcl :-0? No-one's even mentioned the DB, and it's a major DB system owned by a three-letter company...
    • fendale 15y ago
      Surely it's not SAP (maxDB)? Never heard of it before I did some googling. Failing that the only DBs I can think of are Oracle, DB2, SQLServer and Sybase before going to the open source ones.
      • zwischenzug 15y ago
        Don't think anyone's reading this anymore, so I'm safe: it's Informix.