Re: Informix and Oracle in the same shop

In article <5mv3bq$5po_at_cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, ic <iac_at_frc.com> writes
>Definitely have to agree with Pablo on this one.
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>On 2 Jun 1997, Pablo Sanchez wrote:
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>} In article <01bc6e57$5fdd9ae0$618285ce_at_ian>, "Ian Sparkes"
 <sparkes_at_sprintmail.com> writes:
>} > I would also be interested in hearing why you feel Informix is a better
>} > choice for a large data warehouse.
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>} > The major differentiation between Oracle and Informix is normally the
>} > available tools. Specifically, Informix has nothing like Designer/2000 and
>} > having a powerful tool to manage schemas is real critical in a large
>} > warehouse.
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>} At the risk of sounding boring, I'd have to agree with Ian. If this
>} shop is already Oracle, why incur the cost of retooling people to
>} learn another RDBMS. I see Ian's point that for all intents and
>} purposes an RDBMS is an RDBMS is an RDBMS.
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   Because Oracle cannot handle the amount of data and workload that Informix can. Note the latest TPC-D benchmark 70% faster than Oracle on similar hardware...

   Informix is truely multi-threaded therefore can handle higher    workloads with parallel queries NOT requireing context switching    between several UNIX processes. Oracle is not truely multi-threaded.

   Instead Oracle has connection PROCESSES and a group of work    PROCESSES.
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David Williams