Any "non-biased" study would have to be so generic as to be essentially useless, like the TPC benchmarks. That said, there was something recently in PC Magazine's online version that compares a number of databases doing some general tasks.
For the most part anything of any use that was published would be a clear infringment of Oracle and Microsoft's licenses that both indicate that you can, in no way, publish any type of public benchmark without their express written permission.
In general, I would suggest that you look at two areas:
1. General Industry compliance with standards like ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability). If you understand how each db attacks these challenges it can give you some insight into the challenges you may face with the database.
2. What challenges do your applications and deployment environments present? Then ask the experts how the respective DB addresses these issues. If possible test for truth in advertising (can you really guarantee me a 2 minute MTTR on a 2TB db? What kind of hardware would this require?).
I am obviously partial to Oracle, but if you are working in a shop where data loss between backups isn't an issue and you don't have any Oracle DBAs or Developers and a slew of MCSEs and SQL Server DBAs Oracle might be a harder sell (actually I have recently seen a shop much like this move to Oracle 9i RAC on Linux with MASSIVE savings).
Regards,
Mike
Hi all,
Any non-biaised study between Oracle and Sql Server
available ?
TIA
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DBA Oracle, consultant entrepôt de données
Oracle DBA, datawarehouse consultant
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