Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

Posted in 1997

Igor Chudov @ home — Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:27:48 -0500 (CDT) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hello, I have been asked to do a comparison of captioned database engines, to choose a database server for a medium size database (less than 2GB, about 60-100 tables). I would appreciate both pointers to professionally done comparisons, as well as your personal opinions on performance and reliabiilty of these systems. There is a special emphasis made on reliability, so your accounts of problems and crashes will be much appreciated. Oh yes, the hardware will likely be Sun or IBM RS6000. Thank you. igor