Den 2011-08-12 14:50 skrev Leyne, Sean såhär:

> Kjell,
>
> > Den 2011-08-03 14:25 skrev Kjell Rilbe såhär:
> > > For performance reasons we're considering a setup where our 50+ Gbyte
> > > Firebird database would reside on a RAM-disk.
> >
> > After the discussion here as well as a discussion between me and my
> > partner and after getting some info on the cost of a server with 60+
> Gbyte
> > RAM, we are now aiming at a solution where only the relevant parts of our
> > ~60 Gbyte database will be "published" to a separate and much smaller
> > database that will be structured and indexed for optimal search
> > performance. This smaller DB will be placed on SSD or RAM disk instead of
> > the huge one.
>
> Save yourself the "grief" of the whole separate database approach and
> simply go out and get a RAID controller which supports an SSD cache.
>
> The controller will do, internally, exactly what you are trying to do
> via "fancy" processes.

Yes, but the structure of the data in the large database is not optimal
for searching, so we will probably want to publish it into a
search-tailored separate database anyway. Among other things, we have
data that we may not be allowed to publish, but this fact is not stored
directly into the search table, but about 5+ joins away... It's modeled
for data collection and data entry with full history and a lot of
metadata, not for searching.

Kjell
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