Re: AW: Open Source Database Routs Competition in New Benchmark Tests

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'Matthew Kirkwood'" <weejock(at)ferret(dot)lmh(dot)ox(dot)ac(dot)uk>, merlin <merlin(at)sixdegrees(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: AW: Open Source Database Routs Competition in New Benchmark Tests
Date: 2000-08-16 14:38:31
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000816073831.01472b10@mail.pacifier.com
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At 10:39 AM 8/16/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
>
>> > Given all this performance discussion, has anyone seen any
>> > numbersregarding the speed of PostgreSQl vs Oracle?
>>
>> Oracle and MS SQL Server must have been the two
>> "leading commercial RDBMSes" mentioned in the
>> article.
>
>They mention Linux as one of the OS'es tested. Dont tell me they compared
>numbers under different OS's, like PostgreSQL on RedHat and M$Sql on NT.
>Thus my conclusion would be it can't be M$sql.

Yes, they did, and they explicitly state that operating system differences
must be considered in the case of the one RDBMS that only runs under
NT.

All the others were run on an identical Linux box.

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