Re: Informix 7.2 vs. Oracle 7.3 on 64-bit Digital Alpha Ser

Mr. Sidwell,

Please read the original press release.

1. Faster - Informix achieved a higher transaction rate

        13646 tpmC compared to 11456 tpmC

2) Cheaper - Informix achieved better price/performance

        $276.93/tpmC compared to $285.80/tpmC

3) Better - Informix has more functionality than Oracle in the core RDBMS product used for the benchmark. This includes:

• Client/Server Connectivity
• Distributed Transactions
• Transparent Two Phase Commit
• TP Monitor (XA) Compliance
• Distributed Queries
• Remote Stored Procedure Calls
• High Availability Replication (Asynchronous and Synchronous)
• Parallel Query
• Parallel Index Creation
• Parallel Load and Unload
• Parallel Insert
• Secure Auditing
• 64-bit Very Large Memory Support

All of these features (and many more) are included in the standard OnLine engine. It is my understanding that these features are only provided in optional modules for the Oracle engine. Perhaps you would care to tell us the list price for an Oracle client/server RDBMS configuration with the above set of features enabled.

On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, David Sidwell wrote:

> > FACT: 5 year cost of Digital AlphaServer 8400/350 hardware (including
> > storage, service and warranty) used in Oracle benchmark : $1,904,137
> >
> > FACT: 5 year cost of Digital AlphaServer 8400/350 hardware (including
> > storage, service and warranty) used in Informix benchmark : $1,781,042
> >
> > FACT: Informix achieved 13,646.17 transactions per minute
> >
> > FACT: Oracle achieved 11,456.13 transactions per minute
>
> Interesting facts. Without looking at the full disclosure reports
> I cannot dispute them.
>
> DEDUCTION: This leaves the fact that Informix s/w costs the customer
> much more (in license and support?):
>
> Informix system cost
> --------------------
> $3,779,942 - $1,781,042 = $1,998,900
> (total cost) (h/w cost) (Informix s/w cost)
>
> Oracle system cost
> ------------------
> $3,276,416 - $1,904,137 = $1,372,279
>
> So, the cost of ownership of Oracle s/w is significantly lower. :)
>
> Or to put it another way, the cost of ownership of Informix s/w is
> almost %50 higher than that of Oracle.
>
> P.S. thanks for clarifying the h/w cost - I see that my first post
> was in error as I had attributed the increased cost of the Informix
> solution to h/w costs. It simply had not occured to me that the
> cost of an Informix solution could be more than $600,000 more than
> a comparable Oracle system.
>
>
  Received on Wed Mar 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CET