Re: Sybase vs Oracle and SQL net
From: Alain Martineau <martineau_at_MacMartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 13:05:41 GMT
Message-ID: <martineau-220294080527_at_macmartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca>
> >works fine.
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> Can anybody give me a quantative answers in terms of "usage is reasonably light" and "database is not too large" ?
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> >If you need a larger database, Oracle and Informix are generally recommended,
> >although Informix is recommended more for query-intensive databases than
> >for OLTP databases. Sybase has some scaling issue with regard to database
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 13:05:41 GMT
Message-ID: <martineau-220294080527_at_macmartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca>
In article <2kb9q5$an_at_nntp2.Stanford.EDU>, weng_at_leland.Stanford.EDU
(Chi-Cheong Weng) wrote:
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> For Sybase vs Oracle , some people say:
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> >Sybase is decent so long as you don't require a lot of throughput. Their
> >servers bottleneck after 4 engines (in heavy client-server use) because
> >of the way the db is architected (with engione 0 ending up as a bottlenck).
> >If usage is reasonably light, and the database is not too large, Sybase
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> >works fine.
>
> Can anybody give me a quantative answers in terms of "usage is reasonably light" and "database is not too large" ?
>
>
>
> >If you need a larger database, Oracle and Informix are generally recommended,
> >although Informix is recommended more for query-intensive databases than
> >for OLTP databases. Sybase has some scaling issue with regard to database
Where can I get real numbers describing that ? Who recommends ?
Alain Martineau
Hydro Quebec
martineau_at_macmartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca
Received on Tue Feb 22 1994 - 14:05:41 CET