Re: Benchmarking Sybase and Oracle? (No flame wars please)

Yuan John Jiang wrote:
>
> Daniel S. Hayes wrote:
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> > To start off, you assumed incorrectly; Sybase is faster than Oracle.
> Sybase has the reputation of raw speed. But what happens
> when you have simultaneous updates and record locking is
> involved?

Are there any meaningful benchmarks for dataservers? In particular, I am looking at hitting a database of several thousand records several hundred times per second from several hundred remote locations and wonder if this is even possible.

Also, I understand Oracle and Sybase both have provisions for running parallel dataservers and I wonder how much effect this could have on the above scenario (since we would also be adding in the replication overhead to the transactions per second)

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