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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database Recommendations
Message-ID: <553@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 88 00:57:22 GMT
References: <53900001@datacube> <3560012@wdl1.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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Posted: Fri Apr 15 20:57:22 1988

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 am not disputing that such a benchmark exists.  But it is counter to any
    that I have seen published.  It also does not gibe with many reported ex-
    periences of Sybase users -

     greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny.