"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:1087421232.498660_at_yasure...
>
> The main consideration I would think would be the overhead of federating
> data for DB2. The more data the more difficult and time consuming and
> the fact that losing nodes with RAC is an inconvience ... with DB2 you
> have a lot more to worry about ... and mean time between failures goes
> down, not up, as you add nodes.
I'd be impressed with a RAC 'scalability' solution that didn't have higher
downtime than an appropriately sized single node equivalent. More complexity
= less screwups is an equation with which I am unfamiliar :) The same of
course applies to IBM clustered solutions.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 14:08:38 CDT
