nettdata

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   by nettdata 17y ago

   For what it's worth, you can most definitely do that with Oracle. I can't speak to Postgres scalability, but it is my DB of preference. (I guess it might have something to do with the fact it's as close to Oracle as you're going to get in
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   by nettdata 17y ago

   Firstly, I've never said that you couldn't build big stuff with MySQL or other Open Source tech. But if you for a second think that MySQL has the same kind of performance and feature set as Oracle, you're sadly mistaken. The example you ha
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   by nettdata 17y ago

   Oh please. The mere fact that he's talking "RAID" instead of SAN speaks volumes. (No pun intended). Any storage engineer worth their salt would be rolling their eyes right now. The doc you linked to was authored in 2002, about the same ti
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   by nettdata 17y ago

   I've been an Oracle database architect for almost 20 years. His whole concept of "SQL doesn't scale" is the typical crap I always hear from people that are either not database experts, are using the wrong database technologies, or don't kno
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   by nettdata 17y ago

   It's Rube, not Rude. Unless you're talking about the machine's actions, and not the name.