who's got the biggest and the fastest?

morning everyone,

Anyone out there familiar with setting up very big and very fast Oracle? If you could start from scratch, how would you architect your system? What are some of the options that should be considered?

Can a well designed Oracle system beat the proprietary data warehouse type specialists who claim that Oracle is OLAP based and therefore unable to match their speed with big data?

Thoughts, comments and war stories appreciated ...

Robyn

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