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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RDBMS help needed
Keywords: Oracle, Ingres, Informix
Message-ID: <747@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 89 21:38:08 GMT
References: <258@rruxw.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <258@rruxw.UUCP>, alb1@rruxw.UUCP (Albert L Barbee) writes:
> I am doing an analysis of available DBMS packages.
> I have read reviews of Oracle, Ingres and Informix.
> I would like to get any insight from people who work with
> these on a daily basis.  I need to know how these perform
> with very large databases (20 million records).  Anyone
> have any test results or experiences with databases this size?

  Please note that Oracle's licenses specifically forbid publishing benchmark
  results (they want you to concentrate on those pretty pictures of jets....)

  I suppose that we will know that they have caught up with the better dbms's
  when the restriction is lifted :-) :-) :-)

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny