Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com, "Brian Hurt" <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle
Date: 2008-12-16 21:22:19
Message-ID: 200812161622.20185.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:58:15 Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Monday 15 December 2008 23:56:08 Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> > > You can't compare DBT2 with TPCC. They're not the same benchmark.
> >
> > Agreed. Somewhere earlier in the thread I mentioned that the OSDL
> > kits are non-spec-compliant, a little buggy, and sometimes give better
> > results than the real tests.
>
> Could we consolidate everyone's concerns into a project outline, if one is
> necessary?
>
> - Everyone would like to have a TPC-like benchmark kit.
> - OSDL script are not compliant.
> - OSDL scripts are outdated/appear unmaintained.
> - OSDL scripts need POstgreSQL-specific improvements.
> - EnterpriseDB is apparently maintaining their own fork.
>

Don't forget Jan's TPC-W benchmark, available at
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/tpc-w-php/. Not sure if it still works, but Jan
claims it did at one point.

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