Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Posted in 1997

Andrew Babb — Sun, 01 Jun 1997 09:35:10 +0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Nils Myklebust wrote: > "Ian Sparkes" <sparkes@sprintmail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > Although I am not yet a data warehouse spesialist it does seem like > Informix bring some significant benefits over Oracle if your > datawarehouse grows big (hundreds of GB to TB range). Nils, I would be interested to here about the benefits of Informix over Oracle in the datawarehouse league. To start with we won't be looking at 100 GB's but over the five plus years of data retention, we may get into that league. Also, which version of Oracle are you comparing with? TIA Andrew