Comments on: Can DB2 Express-C be that fast? http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/ ... on DB2 Express-C and other free databases Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: leon http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-207 leon Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:22:40 +0000 http://freedb2.com/?p=155#comment-207 Robert Catheral, I'd love to chat about your experiences. Drop me an email at leon.katsnelson at gmail.com. Robert Catheral, I’d love to chat about your experiences. Drop me an email at leon.katsnelson at gmail.com.

]]> By: Log Buffer #120: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Log Buffer #120: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:25:32 +0000 http://freedb2.com/?p=155#comment-204 [...] Okay, I’m winding down now, but I cannot go before letting you know that you might want to break the piggy bank for the $1.4 million Leon Katsnelson tells us you will need to recreate IBM’s DB2 TPC-C Benchmark on an x86-64 PC server. [...] [...] Okay, I’m winding down now, but I cannot go before letting you know that you might want to break the piggy bank for the $1.4 million Leon Katsnelson tells us you will need to recreate IBM’s DB2 TPC-C Benchmark on an x86-64 PC server. [...]

]]> By: leon http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-193 leon Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:52:37 +0000 http://freedb2.com/?p=155#comment-193 Keith, thanks for pointing out the error on 16GB vs 16MB. I fixed it up in the post. Keith, thanks for pointing out the error on 16GB vs 16MB. I fixed it up in the post.

]]> By: leon http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-192 leon Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:49:32 +0000 http://freedb2.com/?p=155#comment-192 No benchmarks on IDS because doing TPC benchmarks is just too darn expensive. Just look at the cost of the system alone that was required to run this benchmark. And, this benchmark by the way was a small one. The 6 million TPM benchmark I was referring to required a system that was over $17M. This is just system costs. The actual people cost of running the benchmark is even higher. IDS is a very nice DBMS especially for OLTP workloads. I really wish we had the resources to do a TPC benchmark with IDS. No benchmarks on IDS because doing TPC benchmarks is just too darn expensive. Just look at the cost of the system alone that was required to run this benchmark. And, this benchmark by the way was a small one. The 6 million TPM benchmark I was referring to required a system that was over $17M. This is just system costs. The actual people cost of running the benchmark is even higher.
IDS is a very nice DBMS especially for OLTP workloads. I really wish we had the resources to do a TPC benchmark with IDS.

]]> By: keith http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-190 keith Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:10:54 +0000 http://freedb2.com/?p=155#comment-190 good read! =) should this be "16GB"? "32 16MB memory modules" good read! =)

should this be “16GB”?

“32 16MB memory modules”

]]> By: Robert Catheral http://freedb2.com/2008/10/22/can-db2-express-c-be-that-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Robert Catheral Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:48:47 +0000 http://freedb2.com/?p=155#comment-186 Why doesn't IBM publish a TPC-C benchmark with Informix Dynamic Server ? My real life experience shows that IDS blows away DB2 LUW in transaction intensive environments. It is less resource-hungry and much easier to maintain than DB2 or Oracle. Why doesn’t IBM publish a TPC-C benchmark with Informix Dynamic Server ?

My real life experience shows that IDS blows away DB2 LUW in transaction intensive environments. It is less resource-hungry and much easier to maintain than DB2 or Oracle.

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