On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Steve Wolfe wrote:
> > 1) Using only ODBC drivers. I don't know how much of an impact a driver
> can
> > make but it would seem that using native drivers would shutdown one source
> > of objections.
>
> Using ODBC is guaranteed to slow down the benchmark. I've seen native
> database drivers beat ODBC by anywhere from a factor of two to an order of
> magnitude.
I haven't had a chance to take a look at the benchmarks yet, having just
seen this, but *if* Great Bridge performed their benchmarks such that all
the databases were access via ODBC, then they are using an
'apples-to-apples' approach, as each will have similar slowdowns as a
result ...