Informix vs. Oracle

I'll ask the age old question, can anyone direct me to some Informix vs. Oracle comparision information? I am looking for something as concise as possible but with good content. Thanks in advance.

ky wrote: > I'll ask the age old question, can anyone direct me to some Informix > vs. Oracle comparision information? I am looking for something as > concise as possible but with good content. Thanks in advance. Such comparisons are inevitably biased because the people running it will not know enough about each product to let them shine. I know all the ones I've seen from Oracle shops have holes the size of lorries in their understanding of Informix, and vice-versa. Besides, both products have generally got ways of addressing most problems. I personally believe that IDS is more elegant architecturally and in solving OR issues than any other database, and it has better APIs, but Oracle is more widely supported. You probably need to do things like evaluate local support (I still find Informix support unbeatable, despite IBM's best efforts :o), costs, support for your specific requirements, etc. I think apart from indexing APIs (where IDS has the edge) and star schema support (where I think Oracle has an edge -- in the brochures, anyway!) most problems can be solved by both. I really wouldn't trust a comparison unless I'd done it myself, and I certainly wouldn't expect you to trust one that I'd done.