Re: Oracle8's new features - what are they

From: Akmal B Chaudhri <akmal_at_no_spam.uk>
Date: 1997/05/21
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970521115910.1209B-100000@cripplecock.sarc.city.ac.uk>#1/1

On 19 May 1997, Walter Roberts wrote:

> Date: 19 May 1997 22:35:26 GMT
> From: Walter Roberts <walterr_at_pacbell.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.object, comp.object, comp.databases.oracle.misc
> Subject: Re: Oracle8's new features - what are they
>
> In article
> <jessicat-2005971534170001_at_ppp-206-170-0-13.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
> jessicat_at_pacbell.net (Jessica Taylor) wrote:
>
> > I understand that Oracle8 is going to come out soon. Does anyone
> > know what are going to be some of the new features?
>
> Oracle8 will support larger, more demanding OLTP (online transaction
> processing) and data warehousing applications with features such as
> partitioning and parallelism. Version 8 will be the first
> object-relational Oracle server. Object Views, an object-relational
> functionality within Oracle8, will allow object-oriented applications to
> integrate with relational data, eliminating the need to rewrite existing
> relational applications. Oracle8 will also be compliant with the open
> standards of Network Computing Architecture (the beta version currently
> supports seven platforms: SUN Solaris 2.5.1, Sequent Dynix/ptx 4.1, Intel
> NT 4.0, HP-UX 10.20, DEC UX 3.2e,IBM AIX 4.1.4 and above, IBM SP 2, and
> AIX 4.1).
>

[snip]

Doesn't sound as though there is an awful lot of OO there. I suppose the NC is more relevant for Oracle now. However, I'd like to publicly challenge Oracle to submit their product to an OLTP benchmark and allow the results to be published, as I'd like to see what substantial improvements they have made in this area. Details of the benchmark from:

        http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/html.dir/citybm.html

• Akmal.

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