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Re: Which database?



> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am no expert on the subject but have had a little experience......
> 
> We were recently visiting the Brazilian Internet Steering committee where
> they operate the .br tld (note that this includes almost 1m records and is
> at least 7x the size of .co.za) . I was pleased to see that this is all done
> on a BSD machine. Clearly the database is of crucial importance to them.

Ummm - .br have ~400 000 names, we have ~100 000 names,
with our database consisting of 12 tables, with 2366348 records
across those tables.(1)

Postgres 7.0.3, on a Linux 2.2.17 smp kernel, 1 gig of ram,
and 4x2meg 700mhz xeons....

we need transactions, which we can not do with mySQL......

--Calvin

(1) as of my composing this email.

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