Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:09:43 -0400 From: Lance M.Westerhoff <lmw188@psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DB2 on FreeBSD?? Message-ID: <40948B54-732F-11D6-B5D0-00039357F10C@psu.edu>
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Hello all- I'm not sure if this is the right list to send this question on, but.... In the coming weeks we will be building a 20 processor (10 node) AMD 2000+ MP cluster, and I would really like us to try to use FreeBSD instead of Linux. If these machines would only be used to run computations, I suspect we would have no trouble at all. But, we will also be connecting a 1.5TB RAID to two of the machines (one will be used to serve databases and web pages, and the other will be a file and application server). So far, it seems that FreeBSD will support the QLogic 2200 FibreChannel cards we will be installing in the two machines. Further, it seems that FreeBSD will be ok with the EuroLogic, dual controller RAID. Obviously as long as we can recompile the code using g77 and gcc, any computational software will probably run without a hitch (and potentially better then on a Linux system). What about database software? As the databases grow, I expect each of them to encompass several TB, so I don't think MySQL will work in the long run (though I could be wrong). Therefore, we are looking at commercial database solutions. From the FreeBSD page, it seems that Linux-Oracle8 will run (I assume that 9 will as well??). Does anyone know about DB2 from IBM? Being a University, we have a much much better deal with IBM then with Oracle. Other ideas? Lastly, what sort of performance hit, if any, can we expect with using a Linux-native DBMS with FreeBSD's Linux compatibility libraries? Thanks in advance for your help. -Lance _____________________ Lance M. Westerhoff PennState Chemistry Graduate Researcher & UNIX Systems Administrator - Merz Computational Biochemistry Research Group Phone: 814-863-7591 Email: lance@mac.com Web: http://merz.chem.psu.edu/~lance/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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