Re: Informix comparison to other databases
Please Art Curse....... I worked at Informix for 3.5 years and never got the ammo I needed to shoot down the 'Oracle' boys......gimme some....The best I can ever come up with is 'Data Warehousing'.........'cause in my experience (~10 years with Informix), we are behind in most facets. (besides DW)....... Man, gimme the ammo.................. -brian On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:42:27 -0500, "Art S. Kagel & Family" <kagel@erols.com> wrote: >panettal@mc-mc.com wrote: >> >> Has anyone done/seen a database comparison between Informix and >> Progress or Oracle and Progress. My company is trying to evaluate a >> Progress database. I am trying to gather some information as I have no >> experience with Progress. Thanks for all your help in advance. > >Informix blows Progress away in features, performance, tunability, >scaleability, ..... > >Oracle, please I don't like to curse online. > >-- >Art S. Kagel & Family >kagel@erols.com
I meant "Kagel", Sorry Art. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:22:17 GMT, bsfoster.no.spam@mindspring.com (Dickey) wrote: >Please Art Curse....... > > I worked at Informix for 3.5 years and never got the ammo >I needed to shoot down the 'Oracle' boys......gimme some....The best >I can ever come up with is 'Data Warehousing'.........'cause in my >experience (~10 years with Informix), we are behind in most facets. >(besides DW)....... > > Man, gimme the ammo.................. > > > -brian > > > > >On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:42:27 -0500, "Art S. Kagel & Family" ><kagel@erols.com> wrote: > >>panettal@mc-mc.com wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone done/seen a database comparison between Informix and >>> Progress or Oracle and Progress. My company is trying to evaluate a >>> Progress database. I am trying to gather some information as I have no >>> experience with Progress. Thanks for all your help in advance. >> >>Informix blows Progress away in features, performance, tunability, >>scaleability, ..... >> >>Oracle, please I don't like to curse online. >> >>-- >>Art S. Kagel & Family >>kagel@erols.com >
Dickey wrote: > I meant "Kagel", > > Sorry Art. Art is good, it is my name... > > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:22:17 GMT, bsfoster.no.spam@mindspring.com > (Dickey) wrote: > > >Please Art Curse....... > This is more like a brain barf than cursing. Here is my short list of beefs against O*(&^e: o One database, one server instance. 120 databases, 120 instances, 120 cache memory blocks, 120 listeners, 120 page sweepers, 120 independent backups, 120 time N server processes - Sheesh, sounds worse that SE don't it? o One user, one connection process if not parallel server. 1000 users, 1000 connection processes if not parallel server. Parallel server? 1000 users 5000 processes? I don't know. Sounds like OL5.xx to me? o Tech support that is slow, knows little, always responds with a pre-prepared position paper (sometimes helpful), and never knows when a problem will be fixed. o Engine heavy with non-standard SQL extensions that encourage development of applications that are non-portable. o Performance enhancements designed to make the server benchmark better but not neccessarily perform better in production. o Oracle consultants recommend that a cron script run every few minutes to restart the database should it crash unannounced. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! This is my favorite. Art S. Kagel > > > I worked at Informix for 3.5 years and never got the ammo > >I needed to shoot down the 'Oracle' boys......gimme some....The best > >I can ever come up with is 'Data Warehousing'.........'cause in my > >experience (~10 years with Informix), we are behind in most facets. > >(besides DW)....... > > > > Man, gimme the ammo.................. > > > > > > -brian > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:42:27 -0500, "Art S. Kagel & Family" > ><kagel@erols.com> wrote: > > > >>panettal@mc-mc.com wrote: > >>> > >>> Has anyone done/seen a database comparison between Informix and > >>> Progress or Oracle and Progress. My company is trying to evaluate a > >>> Progress database. I am trying to gather some information as I have no > >>> experience with Progress. Thanks for all your help in advance. > >> > >>Informix blows Progress away in features, performance, tunability, > >>scaleability, ..... > >> > >>Oracle, please I don't like to curse online. > >> > >>-- > >>Art S. Kagel & Family > >>kagel@erols.com > >