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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

300.0. "SYBASE vs. Rdb benchmark available?" by VAOU02::NJOHNSON (Westcoast Wiz) Thu Feb 09 1989 07:20

    Does anyone have a benchmark result that compares Rdb to Sybase
    out there?  Is it public and can be shown to customers?  I would
    appreciate receiving a copy of the document in Vancouver as soon
    as possible, at mail stop VAO for Neil Johnson. Or VAOU02::NJOHNSON
    or Johnson.Neil @VAO.
    
    My customer has bought Sybase for developing products for the Health
    Care Market.  They have had severe problems with the development tools
    provided by Sybase.  It may be stalling, but they want us to prove that
    we are reasonably faster than we were, and they might consider us
    again.  We do not even have to be as fast as Sybase, just in the
    ballpark.
    
    The customer is the largest SCMP in Canada in this market, and we
    would appreciate any help you can give.
    
    							Thanks,
    								Neil
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300.1We got one!DPDMAI::DAVISGBGil Davis - N55591Tue Feb 28 1989 18:2128
    Neil,
    
    A benchmark was just completed out here in the Southwest that compared
    Ingres, Sybase and Rdb.  It's not your 'typical' database application
    in that it tests loading data into a file, with no overhead for
    users.  (Basically, it tests raw database performance).  To pass
    the test, a database had complete in 80 minutes.  They were using
    the latest versions of Sybase and Ingres (pre-release,  I believe...as
    a matter of fact, our own competitive group doesn'y have the releases
    that this team used.  Wall clock times to complete the test were:
    
    Ingres - 72 minutes
    Sybase - 76 minutes
    Rdb - 70 minutes 59 seconds.
    
    Impressive huh?  We're going to do another test in which we strip
    the extra 'features' that Sybase and ingres used and run it again.
    After that, we will probably publish something and with the help
    of database systems, disseminate the information.
    
    Would this help?
    
    Cheers,
    
    Gil
    South Central Area
    OLTP/Database Area Sales Support
300.2Woo! Good numbahs!VAOU02::NJOHNSONWestcoast WizFri Mar 10 1989 04:120
300.3<Me too>CGOA01::LMILLERNow try it once more ......Fri Jun 16 1989 00:1414
    Neil, 
    
    Remember me? The one who got thir rented car towed in VAO.  I am
    in a similar boat.  We are against SYBASE and ORACLE and I need
    a publishable benchmark even a DB/CR on a VAX.  Hopefully, it will
    be a clustered environment so we would really shine.
    
    Same industry, hospitals, but this is possible new business.
    
    Have you got a copy of DEC/Computing 14/12/88.  Giving independent
    results of databases on a common benchmark but not all on VAX. 
    It's not bad and has been published.
    
    Linda
300.4"Rub-a-dub-dub..."SRFSUP::LANGSTONeclectic soulTue Aug 29 1989 03:1313
    Speaking of going up against S & O:
    
    My customer is comtemplating a move from UserWare International's
    Userbase to a relational database -based system.
    
    We're hoping that O's woes on clusters will bounce them from the
    competition.  And that Sybase's requirement for a VAX to serve will
    gong them.  But just in case our customer is wowed by O's legendary
    wooing or somehow convinced that it's worth their while to give 
    Sybase the deal, I'd like a copy of the aforerequested publishable 
    benchmark, too.  (I'm assuming said bm exists.)
    
    -bruce