Re: Oracle vs Sybase

Actually, your statement is not true. Oracle has at least 4 different databases:

1. Oracle RDBMS: The flagship Oracle relational database product that runs on more machines than you would care to number.
2. Oracle Rdb: Database engine purchased from Digital Equipment Corporation. This one only runs on Windows NT, OpenVMS and Digital UNIX. It is generally more robust in a production systems environment (at least compared Oracle7) and IMHO can be tuned to run better than the Oracle RDBMS (on those platforms where it runs).
3. Oracle Express: Server for Data Warehouses.
4. Oracle DBMS: CODASYL DBMS purchased from Digital Equipment Corporation.

My suggestion is that people use the right tool for the right job and be careful when comparing apples and orangutans.

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amp-group wrote in message <35DA66DF.8E5C584B_at_erols.com>...


>Sybase has a specific server that is very optimized for datawarehouse

>called Sybase IQ. The product beats Oracle in any performance 

 statistics I


>have had of when comparing Oracle and Sybase. Oracle basically has one

>Server for all situation, which is not an idea approach when you think 

 more


>about a DWH application and other types of app. Contact sybase for more

>technical info.

>

>Oliver Amudipe

>SPS - Philadelphia.

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>Roy Ammeraal wrote:

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>> Folks,

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>> Could anyone help me out with making the decision which database to 

 use


>> for a data war(e)housing project? Any tips, documentation, pointers 

 is


>> highly welcomed!

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>> Thanks in advance,

>>

>> Roy Ammeraal (ramme_at_ctp.com)

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