Oracle vs.

Sybase: Get the Facts

Business Facts
Oracle Sybase 78% of Sybase customers who plan to change
Worldwide Revenue $11,000M $960M their primary database over the next 2 years
Operating Income $3,100M $90M will migrate to Oracle
(Source: AMR, November 2000)
R&D Investment $1,100M $126M
Income per Employee $72,000 $19,000
# of Employees 43,300 4,800 What Customers Who Migrated From Sybase to
(Source: SEC Filing) Oracle Have To Say
Paine Webber: Based on new initiatives as well as some
2000 Database Market Share changes in technology and in Sybase as a company, we
Oracle Market Share Growth (96-00): +59% decided to look at alternatives (Source: American Banker,
Sybase Market Share Growth (96-00): -25% November 20, 2000)
Raytheon was interested in Oracle8i because it offered
ORCL certain features that were not available in Sybase
Other
50%
46% Adaptive Server 11. (Source: Matt Kehret, Raytheon)
Universal Studios: The expert management of this project
resulted in the completion of the migration on time and on
budget. (Source: Karen Willshon, Project Manager)

SYBS
Oracle Has Superior Technology
4% Oracle Sybase
(Source: IDC, May 2001) Performance
TPC-C Non-Clustered Benchmarks 6 of 10 1 of 10
Customer Satisfaction Non-escalating row level locking Yes No
Oracle: Highest Retention & Lowest Attrition Multi-version read consistency Yes No
Sybase: Low Retention & Highest Attrition Very Large Database
Customer Customer Partitioning for Administration Yes No
Retention Attrition Terabyte References Yes No
Oracle 85% 5% High Availability & Scalability
Sybase 39% 29% Clustered Support Yes No
(Source: AMR, November 2000) Dynamic Load Balancing Yes No
Security
Oracle Tops Sybase Across Verticals Label Security Yes No
Usage of Oracle & Sybase as the Primary Database in Database Encryption on NT & Unix Yes No
various Verticals: Business Intelligence
Oracle Sybase Summary Management Yes No
Pharmaceuticals 65% 0% Integrated BI Platform Yes No
Oil & Gas 57% 7% Replication
Aerospace & Defense 58% 5% Advanced Replication Yes No
High Tech 47% 3% Database Events Yes No
Retail 33% 2% System Management
Transportation 45% 0% End to End Management Yes No
Utilities & Telco 49% 3% Online Index Rebuilds Yes No
(Source: AMR, November 2000) Application Integration
Distributed Query Optimization Yes No
Sybase Lacks Packaged Applications Support Fine-grained Access Control Yes No
% of Installations Running on Oracle Partitioning:
Oracle Sybase Hash Yes No
ERP 49% 1% Range Yes No
SCM 45% 1% Composite Yes No
Product Lifecycle Mgmt 91% 0% List Yes No
Enterprise Asset Mgmt 72% 3% Support:
Plant Management 36% 6% Scalable SMP/MPP Support Yes No
(Source: 2000 AMR Research)
RDBMS Revenue (96-00) Oracle Tops IBM as the Primary
Oracle Revenue Growth: +104% Database in Most Accounts
Sybase Revenue Growth: -3%
37%
6,000 40%
5,000 30%
4,000 20% 4%
3,000 10%
2,000 0%
Oracle Sybase
1,000
(Source: AMR, November 2000)
0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Oracle Performance
(Source: IDC, May 1999, 2000, & 2001) Oracle8i & IBM eServer pSeries set a world record
220,000 tpmC on a usable real-world system.
What Analysts are Saying Oracle is the TPC-C leader with 6 of the top 10 spots
Sybase is struggling to recover the respect and reputation Oracle powers a record 23,000 concurrent users on SAP
for innovation that had made it a darling of the business Applications
just five years ago. (IDC, December 2000) #1 Ranking on OLTP for Unix Platforms
Customers should not count on promised new functionality
as criteria in determining their choice of, or continued Oracle Tops IBM in the Innovation
investment in, the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. The
Race
product should be evaluated only on its current in-market
1979 First commercial RDBMS
features and current third-party relationships. (Giga,
1983 First database to run in 32-bit mode
February 27, 2001)
1987 First database to support client-server computing
Sybase struggled, especially in the enterprise RDBMS
1988 First database with SMP support
business, during the middle part of 1999, but managed to
1995 First database with a 64-bit RDBMS
boost revenue enough during the second half to finish with
1996 First company to break the 30,000 TPC-C barrier
very slight growth. (IDC, June 2000)
First company to announce web-based architecture
As with Informix, Sybase must recover credibility and
on open standards
must convince the market that it can grow once again.
1997 First database to support cluster on Windows NT
(IDC, December 2000)
1998 First Internet Database
We believe Sybase and Informix DBMS products will be
First Enterprise Database for PDAs and HandHelds
relegated to niche status by 2002/03. (Meta Group, June
First company to provide integrated front office and
2000)
enterprise applications
But it's safe to say that there's room for improvement in
First company to break the 100,000 TPC-C barrier
the quality and features of Sybase's database-
1999 First company to offer a comprehensive, internet-
management system, and in the way it supports its
based CRM suite
customers and adds value to the deal." (Information Week,
2000 First file system designed for the internet
December 4, 2000)
First company to offer a complete suite of applications
that run entirely on the internet