Which database...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 3:47 pm, Kyle Plummer wrote:
> Although not directly a linux question?  I have a client who is thinking
> about using Oracle, IBM or MS SQL for a large DB project.  His question
> to me is which is a more stable/reliable/scalable database?
>
> Thanks for your input.
MS SQL locks you into a Windows server. 
Both the IBM and Oracle products are good. Oracle has very strong support 
for Linux on a number of platforms and fully supports 64-bits. The real 
advantage of using a 64-bit platform for a database is its large linear 
address space. AFAIK, on the x86-64 architecture, you can build 32-bit apps 
to connect to a 64-bit Oracle 64-bit database.

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