Oracle's Database 10g Vs IBM's DB2 8.2

Results of a study conducted by a New York based technology analysis consulting firm Edison Group indicates that Oracle's database solution gives better performance at a lower cost compared to IBM's DB2 8.2. Oracle has been using this report against archrival IBM. IBM however is not taking things lying down and has questioned the credibility of this report.

According to the Edison's report Oracle's database solution can save enterprises around $50,000 per database administrator. The report also claims database administrators can accomplish their tasks much faster by using Oracle's Database 10g. Database recovery time is rated as 58% faster as compared to IBM's DB2.

According to Barry Cohen, the chief technology officer at Edison Group, IT administrators can get better productivity by leveraging the performance benefits offered by Oracle Database 10g.

IBM's response...

IBM has not taken these allegations lying down and has questioned the report's credibility. According to an IBM's spokesperson, the report has been sponsored by Oracle and hence does not hold much value.

Contradicting the claims this report makes, the spokesperson said that many of Database 10g customers are migrating to DB2 8.2 for cost benefits. Giving the example of recently declared TPC-C benchmark results, where 64-way p5 595 server running DB2 clocked a record speed of over 3 million transactions a second, beating all records the spokesperson commented that performance is certainly not an issue with IBM.

"DB2 8.2 performed nearly three times faster than the highest Oracle and Microsoft results combined," the spokesperson said, "at a fraction of the cost. And we didn't have to pay for those results."