DBMSOverview,checklists,andtipsbyCurtA.Monash,Ph.pptVIP

Many products have done a good job for many users each on sub-terabyte data warehouses. Get up into the terabyte range, and the herd thins out. Get over 10 TB, and most of the competitors -- old and new alike -- have pretty dismal reference lists. Concurrency is a challenge for newer products. In Release 1, they typically do a good job for only a handful of users at a time – literally. The first pass of tweaks should get them into the low double digits. Significantly higher user counts require multiple releases. The whole point of an analytic DBMS is that it’s optimized for something other t