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From: rob@linkers.med.utah.edu (Rob Sargent)
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Subject: Re: Why is Oracle better than Ingres
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Date: 5 Dec 90 20:54:43 GMT
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   In article <SWFC.90Dec4111746@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu> 
     swfc@cs.columbia.edu writes:
   >
   >The original question: Why is Oracle better than Ingres?
   >
   >After reading all the follow-ups, I have reached this conclusion:
   >
   >Oracle is not better than Ingres.

   Maybe, maybe not... I've benchmarked ORACLE and Ingres for a slightly
   odd application (a realtime control system with *very* high insertion
   rates), and ORACLE was over ten times faster than Ingres in that case.
   (In fact, only ORACLE could handle the high insertion rate with full
   DBMS fucntionality - the only other product that came close was Sybase,
   and it required an unlogged "bulk copy" operation to manage that. This
   causes me to believe that ORACLE is actually kinda quick for an RDBMS.)

   This is, of course, just one way in which one is "better" than the 
   other. If you count reliability, customer support, development and
   CASE tools, etc, you will get a totally different picture.



   -- Phil.
Was that comparison done using straight SQL or embedded with 3GL?


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