Sorry I can't compare apples to apples, oranges to oranges
for you, but I can say that Allbase/SQL can really "haul"
(another technical term :) when it's properly configured.
I'm sure the same can be said about Oracle, but I have no
experience in that area.  Allbase/SQL has proven itself to
me over the years to be very efficient and a very good
product.  I *do* recommend it.  The one area that Allbase/SQL
falls down on, is in it's support for "cutting edge" technologies.
HP invests it's dollars carefully, and is keeping Allbase up
with the features most requested by it's users, but Oracle
goes after everybody by trying to include everything but
the kitchen sink in their product.  There are a lot of options
to weigh between Allbase and the competition, and HP doesn't
make it easy to do.  I'm to the point where I'd vote some of my
yearly $100 to have HP resume benchmarking the 3000 line
along with Image/SQL and Allbase/SQL numbers just so
people wouldn't be so skeptical!

  As far as needing a bigger box, who knows.  Unless someone
has actually ran the same application, tuned for all three databases
on similarly configured systems, I'd be taking their *opinions*
with a grain of salt.  I'd be interested in how their "qualitative data"
was arrived at (I'm not being cynical here, but genuinely curious).

Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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From:  Samantha Chiu[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Sunday, June 08, 1997 8:23 PM
To:  [log in to unmask]
Subject:  [HP3000-L] Allbase/SQL performance versus ORACLE?

In a job I am working at, the issue of converting Borland (sold by
Cognos) Interbase on the HP3000 to ALLBASE/SQL or ORACLE has come
up.

I don't have any empirical data but qualitative information from the
client tech staff believe that ORACLE is going to peform faster than
ALLBASE/SQL and both are much slower than Interbase.;

In fact they reckon  in order to run the COBOL/Image and
Powerhouse/Interbase workload they currently run now on a 980-200
they might need to go to a 997-200 if they convert the (non
supported) Interbase database to one of the other relational ones.
I can't imagine that either
ORACLE or ALLBASE/SQL would be that slow but I don't have any
evidence or experiences to refer to.

If there is anyone with relevant experiences who is able to relate
that, I would be really interested and grateful.

Thanks


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