| From: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> |
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| To: | Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Marc Evans <Marc(at)SoftwareHackery(dot)Com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Database performance comparison paper. |
| Date: | 2007-02-15 20:06:57 |
| Message-ID: | 20070215150657.48082d12.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com |
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In response to Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
> Excerpt from the document:
> ===================================================
> 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.
The amazing thing is that PostgreSQL still compared favorably, in _spite_
of this obvious configuration bias.
I'm going to have to set up a system and compare a properly tuned MySQL
to a properly tuned PostgreSQL to see what happens ...
--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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