Competitive Context
Shared-nothing and shared-everything architectures each have advantages over the other. DBMS vendors and industry analysts regularly debate the matter; for example, Microsoft touts a comparison of its SQL Server 2005 with Oracle 10g RAC by Performance Tuning Corporation.
Oracle Corporation offered a Shared Nothing architecture RDBMS with the advent of the IBM SP and SP2 with the release of 7.x MPP editions, in which virtual shared drives (VSD) were used to create a Shared Everything implementation on a Shared Nothing architecture.
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