Re: Oracle vs. DB2

Jesse wrote:

> I'm part of a team making a decision between these two platforms.
> We're building an application using the J2EE standards and from what
> I've researched thus far Oracle seems to be a much more mature
> platform in this type of environment. Others are telling me it really
> doesn't matter and that DB2 on an AS/400 or Unix will work just as
> well. Just looking for some opinions on this or if someone can point
> me in the right direction to gain some additional information.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Jesse

My mantra:

Ask in an Oracle forum people will say Oracle. Ask in a DB2 forum people will say DB2
No doubt if you ask in an ADABAS forum they will tell you to use ADABAS.

The critical questions you should be looking at are not just which backend database but also what expertise you have in-house in terms of hardware, operating systems, RDBMS architecture, etc.. A great RDBMS product with a bunch of developers and DBAs that don't understand its architecture is a recipe for disaster.

I've worked in both and prefer Oracle. But my reasons relate to things like multiversioning, reads not blocking writes, writes not blocking reads, etc ... the architecture stuff.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Dec 04 2002 - 15:46:54 CST