Re: benchmarking postgres

On Mié 13 Feb 2002 09:57, Ola Sundell wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, mlw wrote:
> > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > Look at this: (top one)
> > >
> > > http://www.mysql.com/information/benchmarks.html
> > >
> > > Does anyone feel like running the MySQL benchmark against postgres 7.2
> > > to see if there's been a real speed improvement??
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
> > These guys are just A$%$%holes. We have to come up with a benchmark which
> > shows the the difference between a stupid little file-locking single user
> > toy, and a real tansactional system.
> >
> > Maybe we too can put in little snide remarks about MySQL.
>
> Now, let's be a bit sensible, here. MySQL is a great product, if you want
> a single-user SQL interface to flat files. It is blazingly fast when it
> comes to retrieving information in an environment where there is little or
> no data change.
>
> We all know the strenghts of postgresql. It is a fully-featured
> transactional database. MySQL is not, but it is neither stupid, nor a
> toy. It has its purposes, as does postgresql.

What you say is true, but in that case, they shouldn't make benchmarks
comparing the two.

Saludos... :-)

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Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
si podés usar PostgreSQL?
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