Re: Are these Java vs PL/SQL claims true?

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:51:01 -0000
Message-ID: <945875271.14039.0.nnrp-11.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

The last gossip I heard was:

'Java is now only 5 times as slow as PL/SQl'

However, I don't doubt that well-written Java can go faster than badly written PL/SQL.

Jonathan Lewis
Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Tim Romano wrote in message ...
>In Java Developer's Journal, volume 4 issue 12, Derek Ashmore claims in
>"Strategies for Writing Java Stored Oracle Databases" :
>
>-- "Java stored procedures [that do selects, updates, inserts, and deletes]
>are much faster than [comparable procedures written in ] PL/SQL ... [by]
>... 20-40%" -- because of Java's support for array processing and write
>batching
>
>-- Java procedures "that don't use SQL statements execute 9 or 10 times
>faster than PL/SQL" (p.19)
>
>Thanks
>Tim Romano
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 08:51:01 CST