Re: Datawarehousing in Informix

thianlengvictor.tan@bnpgroup.com writes: >hi, >i'm new to this group but am wondering if anyone has experience using >Informix for a datawarehouse (including Metacube as OLAP engine)? Am >currently evaluating it against Oracle's offering of Oracle8 and Express. >Both positive and negative experiences would be appreciated. Hi Victor, I think you will find that Informix Metacube and Oracle Express rarely compete against each other and are designed for very different types of OLAP applications. You should check out comp.databases.olap as well as http://www.olapreport.com to get a handle on this. If you are looking at OLAP please check out Arbor Essbase at http://www.arborsoft.com Lots of Informix and Oracle sites use Essbase as their enterprise standard for OLAP - about 1,400 companies and over 300,000 users in all. If you check out last week's information week magazine, you'll see a large story about how successful Sears has been using an Informix data warehouse with Arbor Essbase for OLAP. Regards, -- - Dan Daniel Druker (408) 541-4027 or Arbor Software Corporation 1-800-510-3197 x4027 1344 Crossman Avenue ddruker@arborsoft.com (work) Sunnyvale, CA, 94089 ddruker@netcom.com (home)