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From: wallis@labc.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmark between dBASE & Oracle!
Summary: Oracle in a VAX/VMS SMP environment or cluster
Keywords: oracle
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Date: 12 Apr 90 23:03:31 GMT
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In article <231@arkham.enet.dec.com>, may@28182.dec.com (Patrick May) writes...
!> 
!>In article <514@dbase.A-T.COM>, awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas) writes...
!>>publishing any benchmark or timing information whatsoever.  I've also
!>>heard from third parties, unofficially, that it's a dog.  There, I said
!>>it.  Flame away--I've never even seen Oracle running.
!>> 
!>>/alastair/
!>> 
!>>Big Disclaimer> I am emphatically _not_ speaking for Ashton-Tate this time.
!> 
!>I've worked with the Oracle DBMS for a little over three years, doing design
!>and development under MS-DOS, VMS, and Unix (SunOS), and I disagree.  Speed
!>has never been a serious problem when the database was well architected
!>(although I've sometimes had to play around with clustering and indexes)
!>and the tool set is powerful and allows for rapid development.  It runs on
!>nearly any platform and both code and data are extremely easy to port.  The
!>biggest drawback is the price.
!> 
!>I've heard that Sybase is even better for development (and speed in some
!>applications) but I don't have any firsthand knowledge of that system.
!> 
!>------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yo Patrick, have you used Oracle in an update intensive application on an SMP
machine or in a cluster. The single write server architecture is definitely a
drawback in that situation. I've seen known of Oracle lose benchmarks in that
situation. 
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