Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

Posted in 1997

Pablo Sanchez — 2 Jun 1997 22:08:49 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <7I97+CA6FykzEwSb@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes: > > Because Oracle cannot handle the amount of data and workload that > Informix can. Note the latest TPC-D benchmark 70% faster than Oracle > on similar hardware... Please cite the two write-ups you are referring to so we can judge for ourselves if indeed we do have "similar hardware" > Informix is truely multi-threaded therefore can handle higher > workloads with parallel queries NOT requireing context switching > between several UNIX processes. Oracle is not truely multi-threaded. No vendor, that I know of, is truly multi-threaded... at least in the sense of user threads and the like. -- Pablo Sanchez | wk: 415.933.3812| pg: 800.930.5635 -or- pablo_p@pager.sgi.com --------------+-----------------+-------------------------------------------- pablo@sgi.com ... when mailing me, place "not spam" in the Subject