| 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 |
I gave Micheal Booths competitive presentation to a sales unit
yesterday and it was very well received.
They liked the slides comparing the relative dollar cost of
acquisition and five year COO between RDB and ORACLE but were concerned
it was only based on a VAX platform.
What they would like to see is a comparison of RDB/VAX versus
ORACLE/SEQUENT or ORACLE/HP.
Do we have such numbers? Are there plans to develop any?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 455.1 | Trying\ | NOVA::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Fri Oct 13 1989 15:53 | 9 |
I would love to do that, but it require time and research, two things
in short supply. Sequent should be relatively easy since Oracle
published Sequent prices in their benchmark last year. HP may be
harder. The real issue here is for sales to force a five year COO in
competitive situations.
But I will try to oblige as soon as I can.
---- Michael Booth
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| 455.2 | SEQUENT Performance Numbers | TROA01::NAISH | RDB4ME Paul Naish DTN 631-3352 | Mon Oct 16 1989 15:35 | 35 |
Michael, I happen to be reading an internal performance report on
the weekend which includes benchmark results for SEQUENT.
The book is entitle "VAX Performance Summary: VAX 6000 Model 400,
Volume 1, July 1989" (EE-CO270). It seems to have been published
by the MSB Performance Analysis Group. You can try contacting Bhagyam
Moses, Engineering Manager, Mid Range Systems, Systems Performance
Analysis Group.
In section "6.6 Sequent Competitive Performance" they list LINPACK
results for the Sequent Balance 8000 system. The results stated
are "The Balance 8000 is claimed to be a 5 to 7 MIP system. However,
the perforamance under Linpack of both Balance 8000 and Balance
21000 is even lower than the VAX 11/780 performance".
The actual numbers quoted in the appendix are:
MFLOPS
Single Double
BALANCE 8000 0.075 0.059
VAX 11/780 0.245 0.140
VAX 6210 0.639 0.433
VAX 6310 0.865 0.588
VAX 6000-400 1.680 1.180
Before you say it, yea I know a Linpack test is not a good test
related to a commerical environment but its a start.
Regards
Paul
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| 455.3 | Whoa! | CLYPPR::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Mon Oct 16 1989 15:58 | 5 |
the first problem is that these results are Sequent Balance and the
database work is being done on Sequent Symmetry. These are two very
different systems.
---- Michael Booth
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