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By: kccrosser

kccrosser — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:32:51 +0000

The first question you might ask is “Do I need to care?”.
Do you know the volume of transactions that you are planning to support?
Unless you are building a very serious high-volume transaction system, chances are that either system would work fine.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has defined standard measures of performance for transaction processing system and regularly publishes the results.
The latest results show Oracle as the fastest under the TPC-C processing model, with Oracle handling over 7.6 Million transactions per minute (on a $15 Million Sun SPARC cluster).
The fastest SQL Server reported is 1.23 Million transactions per minute (on a $6 Million HP Integrity Superdome system).
If you need more than 1 Million transactions per minute, then you should stick with Oracle (or even DB2).

Since you are mentioning “standard edition”, my guess is that you are looking for a system to do at most tens of thousands of transactions per minute, and even old Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition could do over 10,000 transactions per minute on Proliant boxes 7-8 years ago.

If you look at the results by the platform, you will see that for the lower to middle of the performance spectrum, the two databases are relatively close in performance.

So – either system should easily handle the requirements.

The TPC results are available at:
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?print=false&orderby=system&sortby=asc

By: akansha

akansha — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:12:12 +0000

yes i had looked at the pricing. But at some point or other both cost the same.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:21:17 +0000

Mrdenny gave you a link to his blog, where he compared prices and features. Did you take a look ?

By: akansha

akansha — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:46:11 +0000

cost wise OLTP is cheaper in which database?

Is it Oracle 10g standard edition or Microsoft SQL 2008 enterprise edition?

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:43:25 +0000

Both Oracle 10g standard edition and SQL Server 2008 enterprise edition support OLTP.

‘Which is better’ is a question that won’t easily get a definitive answer. You have been asking different questions about these platforms, and I assume you are also using other research sources. When you have enough information you will probably make a decision about which one is better for you (in terms of features, cost, etc).

By: akansha

akansha — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:26:15 +0000

to be more specefic, does oracle 10g standard edition supports OLTP?

Does Microsoft SQl 2008 enterprise edition support OLTP?

Which is better?