Re: RDB Sold to Oracle! Damn!
Date: 30 Aug 1994 14:27:45 GMT
Message-ID: <33vfl1$cqu_at_jac.zko.dec.com>
In article <33srej$ocd_at_info.census.gov>, tompenn_at_info.census.gov (Thomas Pennington) writes:
|>For those who hold out any long term hope of Rdb, consider that Oracle would
|>be insane to sell 2 relational database products, particularly one which is
|>CLEARLY inferior, runs only on 1 platform, and would require considerable
|>effort to maintain.
Ok, I'll bite. I will not respond to rumours, however, your "clearly inferior" statement is hard to understand.
Each of these databases systems were after slightly different markets, so the features are not a 1-for-1 match but they are pretty close. Both have SQL-92 ENTRY level certification (actually DEC Rdb shipped with this functionality first), and they both have a rich set of SQL language extensions. DEC Rdb holds the top 4 price/performance records in TPC-A, and TPC-C is planned also... DEC Rdb can handle VLDB now, we loaded 36000+ users on a 3/4 terabyte database as part of the TPC-A benchmark. Even the loading of the database was fast (less than seven hours). Our multimedia support is powerful, with BLOB's supported since 1984, and we can sustain full motion video from within the database...
So which is inferior? I don't think it is as clear as you think, and I think the product I work on has a lot to offer,
|>DEC never completed the port of Rdb, so I do not think
|>Oracle or any other company will invest any substantail money into it.
DEC Rdb is running today on UNIX... it is nearing beta test and will be shipped later this year. The NT versions for Alpha AXP and Intel are in development.