Re: Is MS-SQL6.5 in the same league as Oracle, Sybase?

nick wrote in article <53t1qn$cp5_at_lex.zippo.com>...
> Right On!
>
> I would suggest you do a benchmark comparison - one dbms i would
 recommend
> tho is ADABAS which comes in two forms ADABAS D (the true relational ONE)
 and
> ADABAS C (the go faster OLTP one).
>
> Its worth noting ADABAS D has 3 modes of operation - Oracle DB2 or
 ADABAS, so
> you can emulate the DBMS of your choice - (the DB2 and Oracle modes as
 known as
> go slow modes!).
>
> One thing you should take into account when evaluating is the
 administration
> overhead,we run ADABAS(10 databases = 100 gig) and MSQL (450meg) - i
 spend more
> time keeping msql up & running and administrating it than i do adabas
>
>
> Nick
>

I would be interested in dialoging with you about ADABAS D. We are an ADABAS C shop, but we are trying to decide on a server based relational database and currently the only thing we have heard much about is Oracle and SQL Server. My Email address is BradleyJJ_at_dot.state.sc.us

Thanks,
Jeff Received on Thu Oct 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST