RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-05 Thread Martin Kendall
Jack, Thanks for your time on this. Most revealing and useful for what I have ahead of me Kind regards from the UK. Martin -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2001 22:47 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Martin, We use interMedia Text to index and query up to about

RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-05 Thread Mario Alberto Ramos Arellano
Excellent doc. I just wonder if there are only cache related bugs on using interMedia. Mario Alberto Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/01 16:47 Martin, We use interMedia Text to index and query up to about 10-15 million CLOB documents (up to 5KB each). We're on 8.1.6.0.0 under Win2k - 2 550MHz

RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-04 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ? Hi Martin, I've had to implement intermedia in the past. with 1 million records intermedia will do the job in an acceptable amount of time. However, when testing it I found that the more advanced features I used (fuzzy, etc

RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-04 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Martin, We use interMedia Text to index and query up to about 10-15 million CLOB documents (up to 5KB each). We're on 8.1.6.0.0 under Win2k - 2 550MHz CPUs, 2GB RAM, 18 36GB drives. Because a domain index cannot be partitioned, we have the documents spread across 5 tables (on 6 drives). One

RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-04 Thread Mohan, Ross
*excellent* post. thanks. Anyone out there put the indexes and tables on solid state disk? They have ssd up to about 10G and higher, I hearjust curious, not trying to invoke a global listserv discussion on how it can't work or wouldn't be worth it, especially on microsoft platforms, etc.

RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-04 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Ross, I disagree that interMedia Text is way too slow to scale. Our experience has convinced us that I/O bottlenecks are the main performance killers with large interMedia Text indexes. The problem is that it takes some experience to find out how this special kind of index is structured (6 or

RE: Intermedia Performance Benchmarks anyone ?

2001-10-04 Thread Christopher Spence
I looked into SSD, they are like $15-17k / gb. Very expensive. And with Oracle buffering, I would expect the performance wouldn't be huge. There were some solutions that were like $2500 for a 1 gb, but they were not sharable between machines in a cluster. -Original Message- To: