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Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

From: Pablo Sanchez <news_reader_at_mew.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 1997/06/02
Message-ID: <5mvg9h$2ar@mew.corp.sgi.com>#1/1

In article <7I97+CA6FykzEwSb_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> Because Oracle cannot handle the amount of data and workload that
> Informix can. Note the latest TPC-D benchmark 70% faster than Oracle
> on similar hardware...

Please cite the two write-ups you are referring to so we can judge for ourselves if indeed we do have "similar hardware"

> Informix is truely multi-threaded therefore can handle higher
> workloads with parallel queries NOT requireing context switching
> between several UNIX processes. Oracle is not truely multi-threaded.

No vendor, that I know of, is truly multi-threaded... at least in the sense of user threads and the like.

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