Re[2]: Informix compared to other RDBMS
IBM is good. DB2 is good. Informix is better. Bigger market share doesn't mean better product. Microsoft doesn't make the best product but they have the biggest market share on a lot of things. Do I really need to go on? ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: Re: Informix compared to other RDBMS Author: "Duncan Kinder" <dckinder@ahcbsd1.ovnet.com> Date: 5/28/1999 11:28 AM I purchased the $99 dollar Informix for Linux because my survey of the Informix books on Amazon.com suggested that a reasonably intelligent fellow could make a go of it with Informix while I essentially would have to abandon everything else if I went with Oracle. However, folks, let's face it. Oracle and IBM have a bigger market share. There must be a reason. -- Regards, Duncan C. Kinder dckinder@mountain.net Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7iicg7$g0v$1@news.xmission.com... > > From: cdlvj810@my-deja.com > > > >In article <374C298B.6F30540C@bdsinc.com>, > > Brian Winant <bwinant@bdsinc.com> wrote: > > > What are the advantages / disadvantages of Informix compared to other > > > database systems such as Oracle, Sybase, DB2, etc? > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > bwinant@bdsinc.com > > > > >For one, ease of programming. ESQL is easy to implement which I can say > >for Oracle, it is not. > > Actually, Pro*C is the easiest Oracle tool to implement. The others are > much, much worse. But my biggest problem with Oracle is that it's damn > difficult and counter-intuitive to work with. You need a lot more manpower > to run Oracle than Informix. And horsepower, too! :-) > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
spasco@unibiz.com wrote in message <7imsb6$h6d$1@news.xmission.com>... > > >IBM is good. DB2 is good. Informix is better. Remainder snipped.... Gotta disagree, sorta, on that one. Depends on WHICH DB2 you want to look at. Even then, each product has strong points. Informix is perhaps more tuneable (or tuneable at lower levels). IBM provides stronger recovery/reorganization tools (kinda nice to be able to say 'recover tablespace abc' and have the database system call for the latest backup -- and give you an option to go to a previous one if that one can't be loaded --- and then access only the log files containing updates to that tablespace to forward roll). Informix makes it easier to fragment tables. and so forth.... Think they are both head and shoulders above the other products out there with their cost-based optimizers over rule-based.