Re: MySQL disputes benchmarks..

> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/16/0010230&mode=thread
> http://www.devshed.com/BrainDump/MySQL_Benchmarks/

The thing that's especially funny to me is that Monty is the first one
to cry, but has been making qualitative, unsubstantiated claims about
Postgres' supposed shortcomings for years (OK, he thinks they are
substantiated by *his* single-user benchmarks :). And contrary to his
claims in the past, imho Postgres has been quite silent on the issue of
testing fairness and MySQL attributes, trying to let the product do the
talking instead.

Great Bridge (not "the Postgres people" as he claims) actually went to
the trouble to do specific multi-user stress tests using published
industry-standard benchmarks, which is the closest thing to a fair test
we've ever seen. Everyone was suprised by the results. It will be nice
to see a few more of these kinds of fair tests in the future.

All imho of course...

- Thomas