Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

> How many OS versions of DB2 are on the market?
> How many OS versions of Oracle?

How many OS versions of Ingres ?
>
> For DB2 you find different databases for quite every platform (OS 390,
> UNIX, AIX, mainframe...) - name it. For every problem they have a
> database - incompatible between each other...
> In Oracle you deal with the same architecture on every OS platform
> they support.

In Ingres you deal with the same architecture on every OS platform they support.

> Some of the things I like in Oracle
>
> * a lot of features to select from (Oracles index types i.e.)
> * the shared sql approach
> * multi-versioning and read consistency implementation (SELECT without
> being blocked by writes i.e.)

you would like Ingres then.
>
> at least, all databases return the data that you store,

depends on the human factor. Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 10:18:53 CDT