On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:26:26PM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
> MySQL is faster, but at the sake of some redundancy/features. MySQL also
> has a quirky, non-free license.
>
> PostgreSQL is slower but is a fuller SQL implementation. It's also DFSG
> free.
Someone did some benchmarking awhile back with PostgreSQL, MySQL,
INFORMIX and Oracle. Not surprisingly, Oracle did the best overall. But
more of a surprise was that PostgreSQL was faster than MySQL in certain
join queries and overall got rated higher. Think PostgreSQL was faster
for inserts/updates too. Memories a little cloudy...
I would've like to seen Sybase ASE in the benchmark, since it's supposed
to be pretty fast.
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