As I understand things, one of the nice things about oracle is that the
servers can be set up with true redundency and fault tolerance. i.e.
multiple servers can fail and the database will still be accessible.

Would using gdbm or db (sleepycat db, included in GNU glibc), on a
distributed coda filesystem layered on top of raid5 do the trick?

I know coda efficiency isnt there yet, but can someone comment on how the
above solution would compare in the foreseable future.. 

- lv