Re: oracle vs. sybase

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:29:16 +0000
Message-ID: <36C9E32C.760B3F8@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>

Jacob,

The $1M reward is for making SQLServer go faster. IBM beat Oracle running DB2 on a 36 node NT cluster.

Chris

jacob wrote:
>
> Sybase says there faster, but thats a load of bull, cause they cut corners
> to get the speed.
> (you would not remove the breaks from a car just because you can go faster
> would you?)
> Oracle has on its website a $1,000,000 reward if you can make a query
> (querying a 10 TERABYTE table) go faster on any other database than oracle
> 8. Check out www.oracle.com
>
> hak <happyika_at_netsgo.com> schreef in artikel
> <9LhzuVBV#GA.235_at_news4.netsgo.com>...
> > hi!!
> > If I buy a new database engine product, what shall I consider?
> > Is there any one who has data about it?
> > (specially sybase and oracle)
> > I want to know pros and cons of sybase and oracle.....
> > Any links or meterial would be a great help for me....
> > thanks.. in advance
> >
> >
> >
Received on Tue Feb 16 1999 - 15:29:16 CST