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Answered a question: Do general purpose or OLTP Oracle databases really perform better on SPARC based servers?
This is a difficult question. Databases do a lot of locking of shared resources like
shared memory segments, buffer pools etc. For this kind of locking they use so called latches
which are implemented usually by very efficient machine instructions. If SPARC offers
some…
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Software development and software architecture for distributed systems, service oriented architecture (SOA).
Operating Systems: VMS, UNIX (Sun Solrais, HP-UX, IBM AIX, …), LINUX, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Azure
Programming Languages: C#, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML5, Java, Scilab, C, C++, Ceylon, Shell Scripting (Powershell, Korn shell), Smalltalk, Modula-2, Pascal, Fortran
Database Technology: Derby, Informix, Informix DB2 integration via DRDA, MySQL, ORACLE, Sybase, Informatica (ETL), Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure
Distributed application development platforms and concepts: CORBA, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Windows Azure, Mule, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle WebLogic, JEE, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Methodologies: Software design & Software Architecture, Object oriented software engineering, Test driven development, EAI, service oriented architecture (SOA)
Others: Discrete and continuous circuit simulation, heat flow simulation, mathematical modeling software (SPICE, Scilab, ScaVis)
