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Ibm Db2 vs Oracle

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For this week 's paper I have chosen to do a comparison between IBM 's DB2 database management system (DBMS) product and Oracle. Realistically, making such a comparison is akin to discussing religion with friends. Each person will have their own biases based on their own experiences. Looking for an unbiased opinion is much like looking for the Holy Grail, every bit as speculative and subjective with the results jaundiced by the outlook of the reporter (Lim, 2002).
A decision between DB2 and Oracle should be based on what resources are available for use at the site. Is there specific hardware or software already onsite that can or will be used in the installation, if so this will have a major impact on the decision making process. Does the …show more content…

Then the TPC can produce benchmarks to measure transaction processing and database performance. Typical performance measures are transactions per second and transactions per minute on a given system and database (Chigrik, 2003).
For Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), the TPC-C benchmark is the most current and is the standard that DBMS 's are measured against. When Oracle 9i and IBM DB2 v8.1 were ran head to head processing the same transactions, Oracle held all of the top 5 spots in the TPC-C. Unless an organization runs a very large database, the key areas that Oracle won the TPC-C benchmarks on won 't matter to the same degree as they would in for a large database. Newer versions of both RDBMS have made the field more competitive with the top five positions split between them, Oracle holding only three of five currently (TPC, 2005).

With a statistical dead heat in performance except in very large databases, pricing becomes an issue for both DBMS. Comparing the standard edition of Oracle 9i to the workgroup edition of DB2 v8.1, Oracle is double the cost all the way from one processor up to thirty two. When comparing Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition to DB2 Enterprise Edition v8.1; pricing for Oracle is just slightly less than double that of DB2 until you go above four processors then difference shifts

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