dhepner@hpisod2.hp.com@canremote.uucp (dhepner@hpisod2.HP.COM) (12/21/89)
From: dhepner@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dan Hepner) Subj: The Corporate Name shuffle (was Re: RDBMS benchmark data) Orga: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino >From: eric@pyramid.pyramid.com (Eric Bergan) > > My suggestion is that the only way to assess the performance of >a database system for your application is to do as accurate a job as you >can at developing a benchmark which models your application and environment, >and then run it on the DBMS systems under selection. General benchmarks, >such as TP1 or DeWitt are only useful if you can understand the relationship >between the TP1 or DeWitt application model and your own. Maybe this claim could be even stronger. General benchmarks are useful only if you understand not only how the described functionality relates to desired functionality, but also how vendor's implementation techniques relate to the planned implementation. Dan Hepner --- * Via MaSNet/HST96/HST144/V32 - UN Databases * Via Usenet Newsgroup comp.databases