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From: marti@mint.inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
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Subject: Re: Why is Oracle better than Ingres
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Date: 7 Dec 90 10:15:53 GMT
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In article <ROB.90Dec5145443@linkers.med.utah.edu> rob@linkers.med.utah.edu
(Rob Sargent) writes:
>   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.

I think we all should disregard this statement, since -- to the best of
my knowledge -- the Oracle licence does not allow the publication of
performance measurements ;-)

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