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Re: Oracle8 vs DB2/UDB EE version 5 performance

From: Sunit Patke <supatke_at_us.ibm.com>
Date: 1998/09/17
Message-ID: <3601372B.85BBF252@us.ibm.com>#1/1

On Sep 9, 1998 Compaq published a 100GB TPC-D benchmark using DB2 UDB 5.2.0 and Oracle 8.0.4
under Win NT on the Compaq ProLiant 7000 with four Pentium II Xeon 400 MHz processors.

You can see the report http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2

Sunit

rbatra_at_cessna.textron.com wrote:

> Don't know what platform you have in mind. UDB has better benchmarks for OLAP
> and decision support than Oracle on most platforms. However, for OLTP,Oracle8
> is ahead of UDB.
>
> I would just get the evaluation version of both the products free and populate
> data and try your application (if possible to do so)
>
> In article <35D9C3FE.DAEBF665_at_lanl.gov>,
> Beth Beckman <bbeckman_at_lanl.gov> wrote:
> > We're currently evaluating both Oracle8 and DB2/UDB EE version 5 to be
> > used as the database server for a Metadata Management System (small
> > transactions with large decision support like queries). Has anyone done
> > any performance testing with these 2 products? Know of any white papers
> > or such that discuss the performance of one or both of these products?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Beth
> >
> >
>
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Received on Thu Sep 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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