| 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 |
Headline in the May 23rd edition of the Dutch version of Computerworld: Performance Oracle on Sequent ten times better than on VAX (my translation) The article describes a large Dutch company which had been working with Oracle on a 3500 and was not satisfied with performance. One choice was a VAX 6300 at 1 million gulden, but Oracle provided major assistance in benchmarking a Sequent (AND Oracle 6 with row locking!) at 750 thousand gulden. An SQL report for invoices that required 20-30 minutes on the 3500 was ready in 3 minutes on the Sequent. Sequent is in. The same article makes a point of mentioning that the company also uses an IBM 4331 - which is still running satisfactorily! Wether this article was the cause or not, we now have a major world-wide strategic account that has put a freeze on all expansion of Digital products until it is assured that the upgrading process will not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Oracle is doing a benchmark for them on Sequent next week! Oracle does it again.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 664.1 | Sequent IS faster than 3500 !! | MAIL::DUNCANG | Oracle... the one-line database | Sun Jun 03 1990 23:33 | 23 |
Well what did you expect ? uVAX 3500 is about 2.4 mips and the
smallest Sequent is, I believe, 7 mips but it is common to use the 18
mip Sequent for tests. So when you take the wide MIP rating into
account and factor in the fact that qbus i/o is not very good, it's
all perfectly logical.
I can tell you from first hand experience that a 6000-420 will beat
an 18 mip sequent EASILY and that a 6000-440 will be the 24 mip Sequent
EASILY. The problem is that we win the performance war and lose the
price/performance war due to the Oracle license fee game. Based on
my customer's batch benchmark with Oracle V6/TPO on both the VAX
and the Sequent, our 6000-4xx won EVERY time .... and
... due to our growth path, we won the order !
One other problem you should be aware of is that Oracle receives
fees from Sequent, DG, HP, Pyramid, and many others when their database
software results n hardware sale. Digital is about the ONLY hardware
company that doesn't have this plan for Oracle. You tell me who
Oracle is going to help and why there is such a wide delta in license
fees ????
-- gerry
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| 664.2 | So what about DEC U* vs Sequent U* ?? | 37742::POWELL | Reed B Powell 422-7291 PTO Sales Support | Thu Jun 07 1990 19:22 | 5 |
Any thoughts out there on how good the 5000/200 would be at beating
SEQUENT on the U* platforms? Seems to me that we have a good story
even on the U* platforms in terms of growth: Even with 486 technology
in the Sequent line, we can push that window further and quicker with
future RISC products.
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