Re: Small DBMS

nswinton_at_cix.compulink.co.uk ("Neil Swinton") writes:

> Oracle do a 'workgroup server' that runs on INTEL platforms
> and seems to offer good performance for upwards of 40
> users.
>

yah, oracle workgroup server, it is reasonably priced. for yucks, i ran the following:

oracle wg 8 on NT (p2/266,96mb ram, 10krpm scsi) oracle wg 7.3 on SCO (p/166,64mb ram, 5400 ide) oracle wg 7.3 (sco) on linux (p/166, 64mb ram, 5400 ide)

wg 7.3 (sco) on linux and wg 8 on NT were roughly comparable, if you discount the delta hardware, with the linxu machine beating NT on disk i/o (believe it or not) and the NT machine eventually edging out the linux machine for cpu intense queries. SCO was hopelessly lost in the running, but, i think that configuring it against raw partitions would have made up a bit of the difference as its filesystem i/o was horrid (almost 10 mintues to do what the other two machines did in ~40seconds) i'da run a real benchmark rather than some canned queries, but, the canned queried were the app inquestion that i was trying to find a home for.

if you are looking at cheap/vendor supported all of the way, look at oracle for solaris x86, and run it on solaris/x86, it should be a plenty find performer.

• craig

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