
- can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM
- replication  
        - trigger approach or log-sniffer approach?
        - one-way (push) replication
        - bi-directional (synchronize) replication
- remote administration
        - pager or e-mail notification of errors on remote server
        - administration tools can manage a remote database
        - administration tools can send jobs to groups of servers at once
        - can delegate administrative tasks (partial access to administration tools and jobs)
- can run stored procedures on remote system
- distributed transactions using two-phase commit
        - with other servers running this database server software
        - with other servers running database server software from other companies (e.g. XA support)



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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:39:33 -0400 (AST)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
PCLabs Survey, Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:39:33PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> - can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM

Why just Win95? How about a real operating system. :-)

Michael
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Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:08:29 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey,
	Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:39:33PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > - can run on a laptop running Windows 95 with 32MB of RAM
> 
> Why just Win95? How about a real operating system. :-)

IMHO, answer should be: Can run on laptop with 8m of RAM ;-))
(i.e just skip win95)

I have such experience, OS - FreeBSD 2.2.6

Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:20:57 +0300
Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net>
Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey,
	Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:20:57AM +0300, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> IMHO, answer should be: Can run on laptop with 8m of RAM ;-))
> (i.e just skip win95)

I did the same (okay it wasn't a laptop) with my old 486DX40 with 8MB until
the motherboard gave up. It even ran well when X was up and running. :-)

Michael
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Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:42:26 +0100
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey,
	Part VII: Embedded Database / Branch Office Support