RE: Anyone with experience with MMOG and databases?

Hi Mike

Yes aware of the other MMOG systems. I would love to touch base with some of their DBAs.

If you do some reading , you will find out that they went thru a lot of pain and blood developing these systems in the last 3-5 years. Lots of crashes, down time , loss data , user frustrations, difficulty with the billing system etc.

Most of them have addressed these issues now and the majority of them are using Oracle RAC with cheaper H/W option. I would like to learn from their mistakes and avoid it if possible and maybe take a different approach ala non RAC. Willing to discuss this offline.

ta
tony

At 05:39 AM 13/08/2005, Mike Schmitt wrote:

>To get back on subject
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> From what I have read:
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>EQ : SWG : EQ2 : uses Oracle
>World of Warcraft : uses Oracle
>Dark age of Camelot : uses MySql
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>There are some others that use MSSQL. I am guessing there are a few that use other solutions too. I read that Dark Age of Camelot said they looked at Oracle, but they couldn't justify the licensing costs.
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>I have read a thread recently from a DBA of MMOG systems, and he said the biggest factor is the design choices you make. Go figure :)
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