> If the desire is to provide an easy setup for testing, I would suggest
that you
> focus on InstantDB or HSQL since these already ship bundled with jBoss.
Are
> these databases complete enough to support ECPerf? If not, then Cloudscape
is a
> decent choice because of the free developer license.
Despite intrinsic value from a testing point of view, benchmarks are
primarily a marketing tool.
The commercial world, for better or for worse, uses Oracle frequently. A
great number of eCommerce projects are intended to present data from what
are, to a J2EE developer, legacy systems. Great numbers of these are based
around Oracle. Cloudscape and InstantDB are marginal at best from this
perspective. Benchmarks using them are almost worthless in touting JBoss to
the business world.
Lest you think me an Oracle bigot, I must point out that I don't really like
Oracle. It's grossly overpriced and cumbersome to manage. My favourite
database is Interbase. For a great number of technical reasons I regard it
as markedly superior, but like InstantDB and Cloudscape, for the purposes of
promoting JBoss it is insignificant.
Probably the most important database servers from a promotional point of
view would be DB2/400, Oracle 8i, Sybase and M$ SQL Server.
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