Matthew Loff pressed the little lettered thingies in this order...
>
> I realize this is off-topic a bit... I also use MySQL for all
> database-related projects...
>
> Does anyone have any comments on benchmarks of the new beta of
> PostgreSQL vs. MySQL? Postgres appears staggeringly faster in the
> benchmarks I've seen, but I don't hear much about it, so I'm naturally
> skeptical.
>
I can't comment on the beta Postgres, but I'm using 7.1.2 (the latest
stable release) for light in-house use and it is MUCH slower than
MySQL in almost every category.
I use Postgres for a few functions that gather a lot of data and I don't
want that data slowing down my MySQL server. As an example of just
one of the speed differences, I had the data saving to both the
PostgreSQL server and the MySQL server (same physical machine) for
a short time. I had collected about 10,000 records in one table.
Deleting those records (DELETE * FROM table) in MySQL took less
than a second (MySQL destroys the table and recreates when you use
this command). The Postgress server took more than 10 minutes. As
a test, I recreated the data and deleted it in MySQL using "DELETE
FROM TABLE WHERE idfield LIKE '%%' (this causes MySQL to delete
records one at a time). It took about 7 seconds.
Every time I've done a comparison between the two on operations
involving large amounts of data, MySQL has come out ahead AT LEAST
five-fold. In many cases, it has come out much better than that.
I'm admittedly not a big hardware performance expert, but I'm pretty
good with SQL and SQL optimization.
I also use PostgreSQL for the things that it does that MySQL does not
(commit/rollback mostly), but as of the 3.23.39, MySQL supports
transactions and it will support sub selects in the near future. Those
are the two missing features for which MySQL has taken nearly all of its
criticism. I don't think that I've heard anyone argue about it's raw speed
(when used properly of course).
Please don't take this as an anit-PostgreSQL message! I really like the
database server and I continue to use it. The fact of the matter is that in
a side-by-side comparison for nearly anything you could conceive of
doing with data storage/retrieval on the web, MySQL is going to have a
decided speed advantage.
This may change with the new release of Postgres.
Christopher Ostmo
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