Re: a comparison of different databases

Phil Edwards (news-uk_at_dircon.co.uk) wrote:
: David Williams wrote:
: > Phil Edwards wrote:
: > >Technically Oracle is ahead of the field. What you need to consider is
: > >whether this means a more stable product or simply one with lots of
: > >additional features.
: > What makes you say Oracle is ahead of the field??
: Slightly longer answer: in my previous job I conducted an evaluation of
: Oracle against Sybase, Informix and Ingres (not DB2); Oracle came out way
: ahead. Also (for the DB2 crowd), there was a discussion about Oracle vs
: DB2/400 on the AS/400 newsgroup recently. The consensus seemed to be "OK
: so Oracle's ahead, _but_..." (you don't need all those features/it's not
: as stable).

        Well, I'm new to databases, but I have a better yet much less scientific answer. I think Oracle is ahead or up there in the front because the oracle newsgroup seems to have the most traffic and in most bookstores around here, there seems to be more oracle books than any others. Maybe not an indication of being "ahead of the field", but at least, quite popular...

Raymond Wan

• ------------------------------------------------ **
• Raymond Wan **
• Department of Computer Science, **
• University of British Columbia **
• e-mail: rkwan_at_unixg.ubc.ca **
• WWW: http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/h0h1 **
• ------------------------------------------------ **