To: Warren Whitney who wrote (2088 ) 1/9/1998 8:29:00 AM From: Dr. J Read Replies (1) | Respond to
As I had hypothesized, Applix's overall figures were just behind Oracle. Also note comments re validity of Applix's methodology (although it sems to me this is actually in Applix's favor: if a low-power client can give good results, then the product is pretty fast)Now, Applix has published figures for TM1 Server 6.0, running the same benchmark but on much cheaper hardware than Oracle or Arbor. The TM1 overall AQT figures are just behind Oracle's, but Applix has proved its claims that TM1 can start answering queries much quicker after a data update -- it was in action after just 13 minutes, whereas Express took 83 minutes and Essbase took a mammoth 304 minutes. Express was much quicker than the other products at servicing queries, TM1 came a good second, and Essbase came last again. Express only overtook TM1 after the latter had dealt with some 170,000 queries, and Essbase was much slower than both. The TM1 database was actually smaller than the input data, whereas Express and Essbase showed varying amounts of database explosion. Even though they were both storing exactly the same quantity of input data, the Essbase database was more than 300 times larger than TM1's. Also, unlike the others, TM1 required no server procedures or calc scripts to force calculations to occur.
