Why aren there any public ODBMS benchmarks?
A. The fact is that there aren’t any useful public benchmarks for and type of database product. The reason has to do with the licensing of database products which usually prohibits publishing any benchmarks. For some background on the problems with creating useful comparison benchmarks, take a look at the August 1999 issue of PC Magazine, “The Test That Wasn’t,” on page 29. The column also explains why even the public TPC-C benchmarks are not useful in selecting a database product. The column ends with advice that is similar to what I tell my clients: “If performance is important to your database application, we strongly encourage you to run you own tests to help you choose the most suitable product.
A. The fact is that there aren’t any useful public benchmarks for and type of database product. The reason has to do with the licensing of database products which usually prohibits publishing any benchmarks. For some background on the problems with creating useful comparison benchmarks, take a look at the August 1999 issue of PC Magazine, “The Test That Wasn’t,” on page 29. The column also explains why even the public TPC-C benchmarks are not useful in selecting a database product.
