I guess it depends on the application that you're implementing. Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle all have implementations of the IBuySpy portal. The fictional web site allows users to purchase products, use a shopping cart, update a profile, etc. Each implemented the same functional requirements but implemented it in their own technology. It's a very good comparison model and there's a lot to learn from the process of comparison. How some vendors/technologies provide "best practices", etc.
If you could pick a fair application model to build on each platform, then a comparison could take place. But there's one small problem. MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle make up the back-end. Each requires something in front of it to interface with the user. Do you compare the designed function or pure benchmarking? What's important, filling a Global/Table with 100,000 bits of data and sorting it? Or pulling up a 200 page catalog of products for 1,000 users? One seems more practical than the other. /David. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Woodhouse Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 12:46 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps == It would be interesting to see a well designed study of the performance characteristics of GTM (say) and MySQL (but let's be sure it isn't an exercise in comparing apples and oranges). I would expect GTM to fare quite well in such a study. I would also expect to see some surprises. Oh, and by the way M and Fileman are NOT hierarchical. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) On Jun 12, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > Couldn't such a test be done with one of the > opensource relational databases? No contracts > there... > > Kevin > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
