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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

74.0. "ORACLE and OLTP" by WARDER::MEAKINS (Clive Meakins) Tue Feb 23 1988 17:36

    
    I've just returned from an ORACLE seminar - they mentioned a product
    called TPS.  They said that with TPS, airline reservation type
    applications would be viable as it is 6 times faster than their
    current database.  TPS is not yet announced but should be coming
    soon.                             
    
    Has anyone heard of this product?  Is it a new database product?
    
    Am I correct in thinking we achieve this level of performance with a 
    single product (Rdb v3)?
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74.1Only 6?AUNTB::BOOTHA career of MISunderstandingTue Feb 23 1988 19:5620
    Interesting, this product has been called several names, *TPX, *TPS,
    and *TPSS. Originally Oracle ran around telling everyone it would
    be 10 times as fast as the current Oracle, so "it will do 28 TP/1
    TPS on a VAX." That means the current Oracle by default only does 2.8,
    right?
    
    Now, they are scaling back to 6 times as fast. Well, I don't know
    about you, but I've seen precious few airline res. systems that
    would be accommodated by 16.8 TPS. They must be talking about damnably
    small airlines, or damnably big cpu's.
    
    Please be aware that the new *TPS module will require an ADDITIONAL
    LICENSING FEE. While, the new Rdb will be an upgrade, the new Oracle
    software will be treated as a separate entity, and will require
    new charges. As far as I know, performance has been upped as indicated.
    Also, the database can be backed up on line. 
    
    I would imagine that Rdb v3.0 will be quite similar in performance. 
    
    ---- Michael Booth
74.2will anybody take 4COOKIE::JANORDBYThu Mar 31 1988 01:1110
    Rumor has it that Sybase performance outperforms SQL*TPS so Oracle
    had to scale back claims and redevelop pieces of the product. Note
    that online backup, good disk space management, and other standard
    database functions will cost extra even to current Oracle customers.
    Rdb is being enhanced with these types of features at no additional
    cost to the customer. 
    
    Jamey Nordby