The PICK operating system was like this. Now Pick has abandoned their os and
ported their DB to UNIX/LINUX. The problem we had with Pick was that it's
hardware support was limited. So when the newer faster better box came out
Pick couldn't support it.
I can see Linux becoming the core os for a lot of these type systems in the
future. Where the Oracles of the world to make a special distro of Linux
tuned for their DB.
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> Oracle has been developing a heavy parallel processing system that
> would be the "OS" and the database all in one. Larry Ellison even went
> so far to announce that this would replace the entire line of Oracle
> products. Well... this turned out to be a silly idea and very
> difficult to implement but the basic concept is sound. If you have a
> box dedicated to being a database server (which most corporate servers
> are) then you don't need to overhead or general, but not as efficient,
> computing model that a POSIX OS provides. Instead you can have all
> drive and memory access be specific to the model that the database
> software needs. You can explicitly setup the tasking model to be
> prioritized more efficiently and make all kinds of other tradeoffs
> that a general model OS can't do. The interface to the database would
> be identical to what is normally there, perhaps with some
> enhancements. Also, the security would be generally improved (or at
> least improvable) since the normal systems services that are likely to
> be broken simply wouldn't exist (this presupposes that Oracle doesn't
> introduce new security flaws of course). Really you should just
> consider this concept a really really big embedded system and you'll
> get a better picture of what this means. I think its a good idea and a
> sign of things to come. As hardware becomes more and more of a
> commodity, you'll see more specialized systems like this coming down
> the road.
>
>         regards & later,
>
>                 Ben Scherrey
>
> "Jones, Tommie" wrote:
> >
> > About 6 months ago Sun announced a partnership where a special Oracle DB/Sun
> > hardware would be available without a proper OS. My question is has anybody
> > thought of doing something similar with Linux/Mysql or Linux/Postgres.
> > Something like a Cobalt web server where you just plug it in, do some online
> > configuration and let it go. It seems like it would be a good idea.
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