Re: clustering and high availability?

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:18:23 GMT
Message-ID: <Pruxc.30345$Gx4.7000@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>

"Mike" <mikee_at_mikee.ath.cx> wrote in message news:10cc61gpcti3j36_at_corp.supernews.com...
> We're starting a project at work moving VSAM to RDBMS. The choice
> is between DB2 and Oracle. It seems like the Oracle RAC is a better
> cluster choice with it's share everything rather than the DB2
> share nothing. Please post some opinions on this and/or other
> points of difference/intereste between the two DBMS.
>
> Mike

Do you really want to use clustering? It is really not that hard to make this choice. If availabity is the concern, Oracle RAC is your choice. If horizontal scalability is more important, DB2 would be a better fit. Having worked with both databases, there are many pros and cons in each. Not to be bias, overall I still prefer Oracle. In terms of advanced features, DB2 is lagging behind. Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 21:18:23 CDT