On 07/22/2010 10:05 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > >> Reminds me of GFS. Though it is certainly interesting technology, >> no one has come out with models that show it's performance >> benchmarks exceeding the performance of local storage. >> Does anyone know of large and mission critical databases that are >> heavily used, implemented with GFS? >> I think cloud computing may be interesting campus projects, but >> hardly a serious solution to critical business requirements. > Hardly. ...Really hard for those in the know to take this comment > seriously. > > I've personally deployed Tier 1 databases - Oracle RAC in all of its > glory - on cloud infrastructure. Our RAC nodes outperformed their > physical counterparts in benchmark testing. And they did it with better > availability and redundancy built in. > I would be interested in seeing independently published benchmarking results and not in-house benchmarking done by the devs of the installation. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines