Serious Data retrieval performance problems

Question

I'm an experrience .NET developer, but new to Oracle. I'm running into an issue with performance that I can't seem to figure out. I've created tables in SQL Server and Oracle and am running against both for testing purposes only. I've got two tables I'm selecting from, both hold nearly identical values. Table names are SIG_INFO and ApprovedScoutRule.
I'm running the following code to select all records from each table. Note that I'm simply selecting * from both tables, no ordering, filtering, etc...
The schema for the ApprovedScoutRule table is as follows
"SID" NUMBER NOT NULL,
"RULETEXT" VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE) NOT NULL,
"DEFAULTPRIORITY" NUMBER NOT NULL,
"ISSORULE" CHAR(1 BYTE) DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
"ENABLED" CHAR(1 BYTE) DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL)
        public static int GetAllRecordsTest(string tableName) {
            var retVal = 0;
            var connString = DatabaseUtility.GetOracleConnectionString();
            using (var conn = new OracleConnection(connString)) {
                conn.Open();
                var cmd = new OracleCommand {Connection = conn, CommandType = CommandType.Text, CommandText = "SELECT * FROM " + tableName};
                var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
                while(reader.Read()) {
                    retVal++;
            return retVal;
        }When I run the data fetch for table SIG_INFO, I get 20,744 records and it takes on average 31 seconds to return and iterate through the datareader.
When pulling from the table ApprovedScoutRule I get 9,588 records (less than half) and yet the average time for that execution takes 43 seconds.
I can run these same tests against a SQL Server database and it takes less than a second for each one of these calls. However, my SQL Server is local and my Oracle db is hosted, so there is the lag associated with the remote internet call.
So, is this performance good? Should I expect 10k rows of data to take over 40 seconds to return?
I'm using VS .NET 2010, .NET Framwork 4.0, Oracle.DataAccess Runtime Version 4.0.30319 (version 4.112.1.1)

Answer 1

Apparently this was simply a network latency problem. When I executed the performance test on a machine on the same local network where the Oracle database is hosted, times were under 1 second each. Marking this as resolved.