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- From: lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
- Subject: Re: 500'000 records - who does best?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.021012.24215@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- References: <18774@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:10:12 GMT
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- In article <18774@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
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- |> We run Sybase on Suns and RS6000's. We chose Sybase because, within our
- |> domain, they beat Oracle down quite handily (they also didn't try to
- |> fudge the benchmark).
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- Would anyone care to comment on the ad campaign that Oracle is
- running right now, showing Oracle 7 to be 3-4X faster than Sybase on
- TPC-A? Unfortunately, in their long list of systems compared, there
- is very little overlap in the system configurations run between the
- different vendors. The same ad has appeared in a number of trade rags.
- The "headline" is: Sybase Best: 183 TPS Oracle 7 Best: 645 TPS.
-
- An item of interest in this ad is how well the Pyramid, Sequent, and
- some other "commercially oriented" machines (e.g. HP 9000/890) do
- compared to garden variety servers. What is the bottleneck on, for
- example, the Sun 690MP cited, which "only" gets 107.2 TPS-A using
- Oracle 7 (no Sybase number given).
-
- I assume that Oracle 7 has the long awaited client-server implementation
- to compete with the Sybase client-server setup. Has anyone made an
- operational comparison of their own client/server database using both
- Oracle and Sybase?
-
-
- With 30K records, you are dealing
- |> with blobs outside the normal record structure; you can run greater
- |> risks.
-
-
- Is there a "correct" way to deal with this problem yet? It can show
- up in surprisingly simple DBMS applications, such as where you want to
- search through a bunch of trouble calls for matches to a particular
- problem. 1-2 years ago, when I inquired to this newsgroup, there was
- no RDBMS that could handle text searches efficiently. (Efficiently,
- that is, compared to a text processing/retrieval system.) Is this still
- the case?
-
-
- (Pardon/please correct any mis-statements above. I only spend a little
- of my time on DBMS issues...)
-
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