Re: a comparison of different databases

In <31DBFB3F.6C4C@csc.com> "Chao Y. Din" <cdin@csc.com> writes: > >Mark D Stock wrote: >> >> Phil Edwards wrote: >> > >> > David Williams wrote: >> > > >> > > Phil Edwards wrote: >> > >> > > >Technically Oracle is ahead of the field. <SNIP> >> > >> > > What makes you say Oracle is ahead of the field?? >> > >> > Short answer: er, pass. As an AS/400-oriented journalist I couldn't >> ><SNIP> >> > Slightly longer answer: in my previous job I conducted an evaluation of >> > Oracle against Sybase, Informix and Ingres (not DB2); Oracle came out way >> > ahead. <SNIP> >> >> Mmmmm. This sounds like the product of a marketing whirlpool to me. The independant >> analysts say Informix are TWO years ahead in the market. So to use some Informix >> marketing, they say that if these so called analysts are 50% WRONG, then ONE >> years lead in this market puts Informix well ahead. >> > >I guess I am a techie too, but I happen to be in charge of a multi-million project for a >government agency. Based upon my suggestion, our client purchased 15 copies of Informix OnLine >7.x database servers and a couple hundred licenses for PC clients. All our applications are >dealing with images in BLOB. All databases are ANSI standard databases with OLTP. We have one >terabyte main database with 3 optical jukeboxes and 3 tape jukeboxes. > >The first production sub-system was delievered over a year ago. The second sub-system has just >been completed, the third sub-system (the last one) will be completed by April 1997. Our clients >have been stated in many many occasions that they are extremely satisfied with our applications. > >I hope it says all. How does Sybase compare with Microsoft's SQL Server and what do you predict might be the outcome in the competition between the two? Which is a better database engine for development with Visual Basic 4.0? Mark