Re: Oracle vs DB2 on heavy OLTP loads

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote

>> We're almost ready to give up on DB2 v8 and consider migration to
>> Oracle (the reason is DB2 v8 being unstable). The main question is -
>> how good and stable properly configured Oracle is under heavy OLTP load
>> (10M+ transactions/day)? DB2 v7 handles such loads nicely, but v8 even
>> w/FP7 is a disaster (instance crashes as well as other errors), and
>> with supported life of v7 coming to the end, we are pressured to look
>> for alternatives (with the only real one being Oracle).
>>
>> So - does anybody has an experience (good or bad) with running heavily
>> loaded OLTP systems on Oracle?

> 
> Very very heavy loads? Well lets see ... the FBI, Homeland Security,
> CIA, NSA, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Bank of America,

You can remove VISA from this list. I asked a friend of mine who works there and they use DB2 for its *most* intense OLTP application.

> Washington Mutual Bank, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile Wireless, Western > Wireless, Amazon.com. Will that do? Received on Thu May 19 2005 - 16:43:41 CDT