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From: forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 13:18:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 13:18:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 16:44:27 EDT
Organization: Britton Lee, Berkeley, CA
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Keywords: benchmarks, database machines

There have been several postings recently regarding benchmarks of
the popular RDBMS's. I'd like to remind people that test benchmarks
are well and good but the performance of the production system
often falls short of the expectations gained from tests.
One way to help remedy this problem is to use a database machine.
Of course, the same difference between test and production performance
could occur on a database machine, but the performance of a database
machine will probably let you do more before this happens.

This fact has helped us sell our database machines to places
that have already bought a software-only RDBMS only to find that
when push came to shove, what they had wasn't fast enough. Our
new database machine, which I'm told will be 10 times faster than
what we already have, will make this even more relevent. Of course,
this will also be true with our competitors products.

Jon Forrest
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