Comparison Summary
By Martin Rennhackkamp
DBMS Server Comparison Supplement, November 1996
An Analysis Of The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Big Six Database Servers.
In 1991 I performed a thorough evaluation and comparison of the four major DBMSs at the time: Informix, Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase. This comparison was done for a client building a huge distributed database application, currently in its second phase of d evelopment, with the first phase running successfully country-wide. At that stage, the distinguishing criteria were query optimizers, triggers, views, and support for distributed databases. Some products had these features, but some others' marketing per sonnel were just talking about them. For example, declarative integrity was a "future" that was at that stage only being phased into most of the DBMS products. It was relatively straightforward to draw up a checklist and fill it in with "yes" and "no" in the various columns.
Now, a mere five years later,......
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