Re: Sql Server 7 vs Oracle 8

From: <kligermn_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:15:04 GMT
Message-ID: <780bou$fjd$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

In article <369AC567.D67B89AB_at_ataustralia.com.au>, Andy Groves <andy_at_ataustralia.com.au> wrote:
> ONE MAIN DIFFERENCE. If you can TPC-D benchmark SQL Server against
> Oracle with one million rows, Oracle will give you a million bucks!
> Check out their website for the conditions.
>
> Now that's a real "put your money where your mouth is" kind of
> guarantee.

Yes. Too bad Oracle didn't decide to pick on IBM.

On January 11, IBM published a 1TB TPC-D result on a 32-node cluster of Windows NT servers (Netfinity servers) running DB2 UDB V5.

In that result, DB2 executed the challenge query 5 not just "within 100 times of the best Oracle result" but in fact ran it about 89 times faster.

Referenced TPC-D result:
http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/benchmarks/netfinity1tb_011199.html

Gene Kligerman
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