Re: Benchmark comparisons of IDMS and DB/2

"jtzecher" <joel.zecher_at_ge.com> wrote in message news:1163799320.534064.270400_at_k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Greetings,
>
> Does anybody have any literature that compares the performance of
> IDMS and DB/2? Specifically, I am looking for CPU usage or MIPS
> required to perform like tasks. That is to say, if you had two
> functionally identical databases running side by side, which one would
> use how many MIPS or CPU hours versus the other to do the same basic
> work?

Isn't I/O the big bottleneck now? Even 15KRPM isn't enough anymore. Heh, anyone try using solid-state drives on a DMBS server yet? :-) Received on Fri Nov 17 2006 - 16:16:51 CST