Oracle replication wasRe: Sybase 11 TPCC on DEC (your comments please)
Date: 1996/01/23
Message-ID: <james.lawrence.142.00099AF3_at_epamail.epa.gov>#1/1
In article <1f7cc$c2716.d4_at_news> Matthew Houseman <mhouseman_at_arborsoft.com> writes:
>From: Matthew Houseman <mhouseman_at_arborsoft.com>
>Subject: Re: Sybase 11 TPCC on DEC (your comments please)
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:39:22 GMT
>isn't oracle replication simply PL/SQL? it may be easy to
>use, but don't we all feel the need for speed for this sort
>of technology?
Yes it does use distributed transactions. Through the front door so to speak instead of through the back like sybase. Sybase should perform faster at the expense of a possible consistency problem. Oracle replicates the data and records that it has been successfully replicated as a single distributed commit. This ensures that it has been replicated. I like the fact that they have done it out in the open so to speak. It opens up more possibilities for me to be creative with it. I'm not so sure that speed at the nodes is as critical as network speed in this situation. Affordable CPU, Disk, etc. still substatually outperform affordable telecommunications lines.
Lawrence...... Received on Tue Jan 23 1996 - 00:00:00 CET