Informix vs. Oracle

Posted in 1999

Keith Sharp — Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:37:14 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I am in the process of analyzing databases for a new document imaging system. We currently use Informix but management is wanting to explore solutions by Oracle. We will have approx. 450 users, possible 125 concurrent users and probably 40-50 simultaneous DB calls. The database currently has 5.7 million rows with BLOB data averaging 40K each, and an optical storage manager. It will be a 3-tier client server environment with a 3rd party app handling all optical/magnetic migration. We operate on Sun OS. Can anyone with both Oracle and INformix exposure give me some feedback and opinions. I am looking at both the workgroup and enterprise solutions for both, but it appears enterprise will better suit us.