To give a bit more detail (I was mobile when I tapped out my earlier reply on my phone..)
1) all of the major database companies will not engage in a "benchmark bakeoff" with competitors unless they control the entire benchmark; try to find any other takers for this 2) I don't speak for Oracle, so there is no "Oracle team." I am not personally competent enough at Oracle tuning, and involving Andrew Holdsworth and his team to do tuning is a none-starter because there's no money to be made. 3) Benchmarks are meaningless: the most important benchmark is your application. For example: if I require the benchmark to enforce a rule that the "root" user cannot read the data inside the DB, then this restriction will rule out MySQL and PostgreSQL. Or if: transactional integrity is not required, just the fastest possible bulk-load, I don't think anybody can beat MyISAM table type here. 4) Price is secondary. People who need (Oracle / DB2 / MS SQL Datacenter Edition) know what they need and can pay. If you can't pay... well it's still a learning experience. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > in general none of the large database vendors agree to do benchmarks. > Which are meaningless anyway. > > On 3/30/09, Ambrosio Berdijo <[email protected]> wrote: >> I prefer to see benchmarks....doesn't everybody :-) >> >> >> And it would be great if we can have PostgreSQL along. >> >> >> How about we let the Open-Source team define the tests and the ORACLE >> team define the data to be used.. Or each team show-off what their system >> can do best. But everything must run on the same hardware. >> Maybe we can get sponsors that can lend us servers (maybe IBM, DELL >> or SUN(!!) demo units). >> >> >> >> In any case, it would be great learning experience. I will agree that >> >> ORACLE is the best for enterprise. But at what point does one stop using >> Open-Source >> >> and say to management, "hey we need to have an enterprise DB like ORACLE >> and here are the reasons". Yes, Please do educate us and tell us the "vast >> depth" of ORACLE features.....but don't forget to mention the ORACLE pricing >> model..... -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
