Oracle Has A Universal Server Too
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Rival database vendor Oracle is trying to beat Informix to the punch with its own object/relational database. Two weeks ago it held "Oracle on Wall Street,' a morning-long series of presentations and partner exhibits staged at Salomon Brothers' offices in the World Trade Center. C.ats Software, Neon Software, Summit Systems and Tibco were among around a dozen financial services partners that turned out to wave the Oracle flag.
And what does Oracle call its object/relational database, but Oracle Universal Server. Yet, what Informix calls Datablades, Oracle calls plug-in data cartridges. Accor4ing to Informix's director of database marketing, Malcolm Colton, the big difference between Informix's and Oracle's Universal Server, is that Datablades run inside the database, whereas Oracle's cartridges run in-between the server and applications as middleware. "Running the Datablades inside the database has enormous performance advantages because if you have to move a lot of the data out of the server into the middleware layer to be processed, it can take a long 6me to find information,' Colton says.
However, Kelly Herrell, senior director of marketing for server technologies at Oracle, says Oracle's data cartridges "are not connected by a layer of middleware but are "written in CORBA API standards for portability across tiers. Furthermore, he says, there is a huge deference between the strength of the core database running in Oracle's and Informix's flavors of Universal Server. "The more important question is system stability, robustness, overall through put and manageability,' he says. And for Wall Street firms looking for databases that can handle mission-critics tasks, Oracle's Universal Server is the better choice, he contends.
"Informix offers three separate databases, for transaction processing, data warehousing and objects. And if what a customer wants is transaction processing, Informix does not lead with the Universal Server but with Informix 7.2. Oracle offers only one database," Herrell says.
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