Phani Raj Raghavendra

High-performance databases are optimized for transaction processing and used by several industries around the world, notably financial services and healthcare. They are more commonly available on 32-bit Unix platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux). The trend is to 64-bit-enable them and migrate them to the IA-64 architecture. This helps companies take advantage of the scalability and performance features provided by 64-bit architecture and win them greater market share. This article will describe some of the challenges we faced and resolved in migrating one such database engine application from 32-bit Unix to Linux on IA-64. Migration Challenges of the Database This database has its own runtime architecture that is totally different from the Itanium runtime architectu... (more)