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Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux' (ZDNet UK)

Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux' (ZDNet UK)

Posted Sep 9, 2004 16:59 UTC (Thu) by danielos (guest, #6053)
Parent article: Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux' (ZDNet UK)

"Sybase carried out a performance study on ASE in HP's labs. The study found that ASE is the fastest database on a four-CPU Linux system, but it's not clear what it was tested against."

... against nothing. well this demostrate that at least it works as a dbms: this document is a must read..


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Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux' (ZDNet UK)

Posted Sep 9, 2004 20:41 UTC (Thu) by aotheoverlord (guest, #3993) [Link]

To be fair to Sybase, most DBMS licenses preclude you from publishing results of any sort of benchmark without permission, so they probably can't list who they compared against. This is where the TPC benchmarks comes in.

Unfortunately, those are abused by companies like Microsoft who just keep running tests so as to force everyone else out of the top 10. Perhaps if they spent less time doing this and more time fixing their security problems ... ;-)

Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux' (ZDNet UK)

Posted Sep 10, 2004 12:02 UTC (Fri) by danielos (guest, #6053) [Link]

ok, but what is for a graph with a line in? it's a function analisis for himself or an interpolation exercise? The only thing I see there is that dbms work and do transaction, that it scale as aspected, but I don't have the same 4 CPU machine I can't do a comparition by myself.

Also this: http://mysqld.active-venture.com/MySQL_Benchmarks.html ?

Sybase releases 'first free production database for Linux' (ZDNet UK)

Posted Sep 10, 2004 13:11 UTC (Fri) by aotheoverlord (guest, #3993) [Link]

Well, to be equally fair to Oracle, those numbers are very bad, and are most likely the result of people not configuring the Oracle database correctly.

(Anyone remember the original Mindcraft benchmarks?)

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