On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) <ruth...@cisco.com> wrote: > Okay, you've given me some useful information. > > As the original subject line indicates, I'm open to the idea that no such > benchmark exists. > > If anyone asks about this stuff, I can just say that performance varies > widely by database and application, that Postgres performs well enough > against other RDBMSs, that Postgres is known to scale up well and make good > use of concurrency, and that I couldn't find any clear benchmark results to > back it up. > > Of course, if I *did* find any benchmark values then I could have used that > to dispel false rumours from the MySQL guys. However it looks like simple > measured indicators aren't easy to come by.
Well, the tweakers benchmarks are a pretty good mysql pgsql comparison, although getting older now. Apparently mysql has improved a lot of their concurrency issues that were uncovered in that one. Pgsql has just continued to get faster. Google MySQL gotchas for a list of reasons to avoid it. There's a pgsql gotcha list, it's shorter, and the gotchas are a lot less likely to induce a case of the vapors. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
