Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!john
From: john@geac.UUCP (John Henshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database Recommendations
Message-ID: <2602@geac.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 16:50:27 GMT
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Posted: Sun Apr 17 12:50:27 1988
References: <53900001@datacube> <3560012@wdl1.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@geac.UUCP (John Henshaw)
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In article <3560012@wdl1.UUCP> mitchell@wdl1.UUCP (Jo Mitchell) writes:
>
>	I use INGRES on SUN (and VMS).  Its very easy to use and
>	we've done dozens of applications in it within the last year.
>	However; I've seen one benchmark (sorry, proprietary) of
>	EMPRESS, INGRES, ORACLE, and SYBASE: EMPRESS came out
>	ahead followed closely by SYBASE then ORACLE and, lastly,
>	INGRES.
>						- Jo

I'm a INGRES(tm) Ultrix(tm) user, and we too evaluated several of the
above DBMSs. This included a benchmark which modeled one of our
applications.

Until a standard benchmark is established, I'll have trouble believing
anything I hear. Generic benchmarks such as TP1 or the DeWitt benchmark
suite are contrived, although one must at least respect their intent. Until
some standard exists, my best advice is do what we did: you're going to
have to do it sooner or later anyway.

-john-
-- 
John Henshaw,			(mnetor, yunexus, utgpu !geac!john)
Geac Computers Ltd.		If we don't pay for education now, are we
Markham, Ontario, Canada, eh?	going to be able to pay for ignorance later?