Re: feature & performance comparison

"swp" <DSAsteve_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:a59bd1d2.0106071150.4cca1d15_at_posting.google.com...
> I am posting this to both the Oracle and DB2 newsgroups in the hopes
> that I will get a better set of answers.
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> I would also like a performance comparison of the two. How they stack
> on up similar machines with similar user loads across a wide variety
> of platforms. I am sure that someone has already done this, perhaps
> the Gartner Group, but I cannot find an honest "apples to apples"
> comparison anywhere.

That is because such a beastie doesn't exist. Even within one system performance varies from machine to machine, application to application and even site to site. This is one reason why reference sites for a vendors product are at best an iffy decsion tool. your implementation won't be the same. Once you add in comparing one db system with an other db system from a different vendor you are in a hopeless position. far better to consider the application you have in mind and weigh up the different offerings.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK