Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

From: michael newport <michaelnewport_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Oct 2004 05:37:57 -0700
Message-ID: <63b202d.0410220437.fb6e34e@posting.google.com>

correction you thought that you had made your point...

You can also use JAVA on Ingres.

1. Security model – same
2. Scalability - same
3. Performance - same
4. Shared Everything Architecture - equivalent
5. RAC - equivalent
6. DataGuard - equivalent
7. RMAN - equivalent
8. TAF (transparent application failover) - equivalent
9. User defined indexes - same
10. User defined operators - same
11. User defined locking - nice but never needed
12. Domain indexes - nice but never needed
13. Reverse-key indexes - same
14. Compressed indexes - same
15. Function based indexes - nice but never needed
16. Sequences - same
17. User defined data types - same
18. Partitioning and Subpartitioning - same
19. Global Temporary Tables - same
20. External Tables - same
21. Index Organized Tables - same
22. Enterprise level support 7x24x365 - same
23. Books at Amazon.com
    (Oracle 27,707 hits, DB2 1,955 hits, Ingres 0 hits if refering to
    your product)
24. Jobs at Dice.com
    (Oracle 8,097 jobs, DB2 1,779 jobs, Ingres 18 jobs)
    
25. Jobs at Monster.com
26. Jobs at Hotjobs.com

    I agree that Oracle wins on the job front but that will change.     Would you rather keep your job and use Ingres ? or     keep Oracle and have your job outsourced to India ?

26. Packages                          - like programs ?

27. Native compilation into C of PL/SQL – never needed this

29. A prayer the product will still exist in 10 years. –

    now that Ingres is Open Source it will still be here, why,

       
        because its free

for the few things that Ingres does not have, Oracle is not worth the money ??

I know I have made my point !

Regards
Michael Newport Received on Fri Oct 22 2004 - 07:37:57 CDT