Re: Oracle vs DB2 on heavy OLTP loads

dbguy456_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> - re. RACs - DB2 has somewhat similar thing but it is not really needed
> for any conceivable OLTP loads; in general, we're pretty sure that DB2
> and Oracle are more or less equivalent in OLTP performance department.

RAC is not "needed" for OLTP but it will provide you with a few things you can not get from DB2.

1. Failover
2. No need to federate data

> - re. 4500 records/minute - it was just a test, and what we need is
> real-life experience. DB2 v8 will also work Ok in several-hour testing;
> it fails just once a few days or weeks which is still not good enough.
>
> Thanks anyway

I have, in production, run as I said before 20K+ inserts per second. That is real-life experience and I can put you in touch, off-line, with the Oracle employee that worked with me on the project to verify it.

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