Re: Database performance comparison paper.

From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database performance comparison paper.
Date: 2007-02-15 19:33:08
Message-ID: 200702151133.08303@hal.medialogik.com
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On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:29, Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
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> 2. What is compared here - "Apples and Oranges"
> The setups are as standard as can be. The only principle guiding the
> installation of all the software is simplicity. No optimization, no
> tweaks, no editing of configuration files.
> ===================================================
>
> That doesn't sound like a very useful methodology for benchmarking.
>

In particular, it means they used MyISAM with no fsync for MySQL. They
might as well have sent those inserts to /dev/null, it would have been as
useful a test.

They also didn't use transactions.

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