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In article <7I97+CA6FykzEwSb_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes:
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> 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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