A Practical Hardware Sizing Guide for Sybase® IQ 15
Sybase IQ and RAP Store a Component of RAP – The Trading Edition®
This document will attempt to highlight the main areas of concern for sizing a Sybase IQ environment. This sizing guide also applies to the RAP Store component of RAP – The Trading Edition. The RAP Store component is based on Sybase IQ and, as such, would be sized the same as a stand-alone Sybase IQ instance.
Sizing of Sybase IQ is generally confined to CPU, memory, and storage.
It should also be noted that this document is a work in progress and most points contained in it come from real world experience. Should this document be followed it is at the sole responsibility and discretion of the reader and implementation team.