[CLUG] linux+dbms (mysql/informix/oracle) question.

[John Hegarty]

I use Interbase on a simular setup , about 15 users and I get very nice
performance out of it.

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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Guest, Ken wrote:

> All things being unequal,
> Could somebody help me out please on choosing between
> Informix, MySQL, Oracle & SQL Server (not for home use).
> 
> Judging from the benchmarks on the mysql website Oracle
> is pretty much dead on arrival as far as choosing it
> over the others is concerned. MySQL appears to kick
> Informix's butt as well.
> That said they has stored procedures (which mysql does not
> yet seem to have) so they might actually have a bit more
> of a fighting chance - does anybody know how they compare
> against mysql when stored procedures are used?
> [it's cheating slightly, but I'm more interested in
> getting the last drop of performance out of the better 
> choice of DBMS rather than being fair to be brutally honest].
> 
> To put a bit of perspective on this, the dbms will have
> Windows clients (using odbc) [though a web interface might be
> implemented some time in the future] - and there isn't a superbly
> specced machine available to house the DBMS; a 133Mhz pentium
> with 32 mb ram and a 1.2 gb harddrive.
> 
> Because of the spec of the machine SQL Server is really not 
> an option (thank Ghod) so I'm thinking along the lines of
> redhat+oracle/mysql. But I'm still torn between believing
> the benchmarks on the mysql website and going for Oracle 
> regardless for it's stored procedures & triggers.
> 
> 
> any opinions on this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
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