Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!twister.neo.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EE10CA6.1000109@cinci.rr.com> From: Carl Doan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.paradox,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.sybase Subject: Re: Cross Post DATABASE QUESTION References: <8dcf2300.0306040207.1aa53dcc@posting.google.com> <92eeeff0.0306042257.2e67e54e@posting.google.com> <3edf0077$0$28909$1b62eedf@news.euronet.nl> <5fd2829d.0306051130.39024fdc@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 94 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:58:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.27.176.106 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.neo.rr.com 1054936711 65.27.176.106 (Fri, 06 Jun 2003 17:58:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 17:58:31 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio Xref: core-easynews comp.databases:98997 comp.databases.paradox:83608 comp.databases.oracle.misc:98465 comp.databases.sybase:26840 X-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:49:43 MST (news.easynews.com) CSC wrote: > You can check the following web site to select the fastest database > > http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp > > > > In comp.databases.sybase Kabir wrote: > >>If you havent decided or are going to decide on Oracle,please read the >>Oracle facts at Brian Ceccarelli @ dbpowersuite.com. >>"Rob Verschoor" wrote in message news:<3edf0077$0$28909$1b62eedf@news.euronet.nl>... >> >>>"Rauf Sarwar" wrote in message >>>news:92eeeff0.0306042257.2e67e54e@posting.google.com... >>> >>>>"Ken Johnsen" wrote in message >>> >>> news:... >>> >>>>>"KULJEET" wrote in message >>>>>news:febbed51.0306040517.71e25bf6@posting.google.com... >>>>> >>>>>>PupppyWizzard@glay.org (Pupppy Wizzard) wrote in message >>> >>> news:<8dcf2300.0306040207.1aa53dcc@posting.google.com>... >>> >>>>>>>Hi. We are setting up a new database. We previously used MS >>> >>> Access, >>> >>>>>>>but we want something better. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>What would be a good choice for a company with 300 employees >>> >>> from: >>> >>>>>>>MS SQL SERVER >>>>>>>Oracle >>>>>>>Sybase >>>>>>>MySQL >>>>>>>Paradox >>>>>>> >>>>>>>-Jer >>>>>> >>>>>>choose oracle only. >>>> >>>> >>>>If you want "something better" then the best RDBMS out of the list >>> >>> is >>> >>>>Oracle. However, if you want to leverage your existing MS Access >>>>skillset and do not want to spend time and money to learn Oracle, >>> >>> then >>> >>>>go with SQL Server. >>>> >>>>Regards >>>>/Rauf Sarwar >>> >>>Oracle may be "better", but if you're looking for "someting really >>>good", choose Sybase ASE. >>> >>>HTH, >>> >>>Rob V. >>>rob@DO.NOT.SPAM.sypron.nl.REMOVE.THIS.DECOY Before you look at those numbers, realize that these systems are not real-world. I highly doubt a company/department of 300 can afford a multi-million dollar system, let alone the professional services to tune it. Depending on what you have to work with and what you are planning to put on the database server, I would first look to Sybase or MSSQL. With those two, you have ease of administring, scalability ( up to several TBs ), and lower cost of ownership. At least with MS SQL, the learning curve will be much lower. I have been working with MS SQL for over a year, and I would not recommend it for "mission critical" systems yet. If your organization is look towards terabytes of data, perhaps UDB, which is maturing. I have mixed reviews with UDB and it's cold backup requirements ( same with Oracle ), but they both have proven track records. Oracle can scale very well, but I think starting out with Oracle can be counter productive unless you have that experience already in-house and you have the cash to throw around. MySQL is a growing, but still niche db IMHO. It scales, but I am assuming you would want full support, etc. Carl