Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

In article <ed737cdd.0410262321.74457b00_at_posting.google.com> info_at_Boecker-OCP.com (Yukonkid) wrote:
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>"Rhino" <rhino1_at_NOSPAM.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<33xcd.373$JG5.58933_at_news20.bellglobal.com>...
>> One of my friends, Scott, is a consultant who doesn't currently have
>> newsgroup access so I am asking these questions for him. I'll be telling him
>> how to monitor the answers via Google Newsgroup searches.
>>
>> Scott has heard a lot of hype about DB2 and Oracle and is trying to
>> understand the pros and cons of each product. I'm quite familiar with DB2
>> but have never used Oracle so I can't make any meaningful comparisons for
>> him. He does not have a lot of database background but sometimes has to
>> choose or recommend a database to his clients.
>>
>> Scott has enough life-experience to take the marketing information produced
>> by IBM and Oracle with a grain of salt and would like to hear from real
>> DBAs, especially ones who are fluent with both products, for their views on
>> two questions:
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>> 1. What are the pros and cons of the current releases of DB2 and Oracle?
>>
>> 2. What other sources of *independent* information are available to help
>> someone new to databases choose between DB2 and Oracle?
>>
>> This is *not* a troll and we don't want to start a flame war! Scott just
>> want some honest facts to help him decide which product is best at which
>> jobs.
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>Hi,

Point made.

>without going into much religious talking, ask yourself:

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.

>How many OS versions of DB2 are on the market?
>How many OS versions of Oracle?

How?

>For DB2 you find different databases for quite every platform (OS 390,
>UNIX, AIX, mainframe...) - name it. For every problem they have a
>database - incompatible between each other...
>In Oracle you deal with the same architecture on every OS platform
>they support.

Are you positive about that?

>Some of the things I like in Oracle

Do you wonder if you like in oracle?

>* a lot of features to select from (Oracles index types i.e.)
>* the shared sql approach
>* multi-versioning and read consistency implementation (SELECT without
>being blocked by writes i.e.)

Those found in their towards world understanding report.

>yk

Oh ...

>at least, all databases return the data that you store,

Why are you so positive?

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