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Permalink Reply by Thomas Michaud on October 26, 2011 at 3:38pm

I don't claim to be the expert, but the difference is (I think) in use.

 

Grid represents a scalable framework.  You write your algorithm and your code and use as much computing power as you wallet can afford.  (Useful as some work can be highly parallelizable) .

 

Cloud computing offers storage (true) but it's also represents the applications as well.  Ideally with cloud computing, you don't need to have certain applications on your desktop - as long as you can hit the cloud, you can get, update, and use your data.  

Permalink Reply by Hervé-greg MOKWABO on October 26, 2011 at 3:49pm

Thanks thomas;

What  I got :

 

Grid - much computing power and can be highly parallelizable

 

Cloud - Storage and dont need to have  certain applications on your desktop ( that's just like server application?)

 

Someone can tell us more?

Permalink Reply by Bradlee Sargent on October 27, 2011 at 10:58pm

I think if you look at the history, you will understand some difference.

In my own experience, the grid began with Oracle using it as a type of metadatabase, which would point to multiple databases residing on different but uniform hardware systems.  So if a company had multiple unix boxes and needed to increase the size of their database, instead of purchasing additional hardware they could implement the grid database and combine their multiple unix servers into one database resource.

 

Cloud is much more in terms of it offering not only a database, but also an entire server including the operating system.

The cloud exposes an operating system, whereas a grid exposes a database.

 

But I am no buzz word expert so I might be wrong.

Permalink Reply by Jackie Gleason on October 28, 2011 at 10:17am

I just talked to a buddy about this, essentially the Oracle Grid product is differant because it runs the DB in memory. So access times are a lot quicker. I don't think it is really a matter of Vs. so much as Grid computing is a way to handle db transactions in a faster way.

 

He said their grid servers had something like 72gbs of ram. Freaking crazy

Permalink Reply by Hervé-greg MOKWABO on November 29, 2011 at 10:33am

Please Bradley, wha do you think about Jackie's reaction?