Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!botter!vu44!bouwhof From: bouwhof@cs.vu.nl (Bouhof W) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company) Message-ID: <849@vu44.cs.vu.nl> Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 05:02:00 EDT Article-I.D.: vu44.849 Posted: Fri Jun 5 05:02:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 04:39:47 EDT References: <2700@blia.BLI.COM> <851@rtech.UUCP> <11872@aero.ARPA> <1392@ur-tut.UUCP> Reply-To: bouwhof@cs.vu.nl (Bouhof W) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 54 To: ecec@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP From: Bouhof W Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company) Newsgroups: comp.databases In-Reply-To: <1392@ur-tut.UUCP> References: <2700@blia.BLI.COM> <851@rtech.UUCP> <11872@aero.ARPA> Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Cc: Bcc: In article <1392@ur-tut.UUCP> you write: >I'd be interested in hearing plugs by vendors for their own products. >I hope the plugs would be technical. It would be a great way to learn >about the various databases; certainly no one is as familiar with the >shortcomings of database X than the maker of database Y. > >If ridiculous, false, or unfair claims were made, they would be subject >to the criticism of the readers of this group, which includes the other >vendors. The result would be an informed discussion greatly superior to >the advertisments that are in the trade publications. > >I'm aware that no one wants to see this newsgroup turned into one long >commercial, but I'd also like to learn more about the products that are >available. > >What do people think? > > Eric Carleen > University of Rochester Medical Center > UUCP: {seismo|allegra}!rochester!ur-msbvax!edc > Bitnet: heartedc@uorhbv > Phone: (716)-275-5391 Although I'm an enthousiastic UNIX user, I recently also became rather fond of TANDEM's stuff. Here, we are discussing DBMSs and therefore ther should also be a place for Tandem's NonStop SQL (I'm no shareholder) which is called the most relational approach to DBMS and which in a recently performed benchmark (done by Codd and Date's bureau) managed to handle 208 OLTP transactions per second in a simulated 25,000 automatic teller machine environment. In comment to Eric Carleen's article I wish to add that it is indeed interesting to learn more about the available products and to comment (here only briefly) on their merits. Is there anyone who can elaborate on the new NonStop SQL in relation to other (R)DBMS and especially to the myths of the supposed inherent slowness of the relational approach. Is there here a real milestone as stated by Date?? Edwin F. Setzpfand (on vu44!bouwhof)