Re: AW: Open Source Database Routs Competition inNew Bench mark Tests

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, 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>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: AW: Open Source Database Routs Competition inNew Bench mark Tests
Date: 2000-08-16 15:26:54
Message-ID: 399AB2BE.B1251F97@alumni.caltech.edu
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> That's how the normal TPC testing is done, I believe. Except on huge
> honkin' hardware.

Right. And it's on huge honkin' hardware because you won't see a number
published which doesn't *win* in the commercial wars. That said, I
suppose you wouldn't have seen the GB results if they turned out sucky
for Postgres. You probably wouldn't see GB anywhere if Postgres wasn't
competitive in performance during their evaluation phase of the company
startup :)

otoh, GB *did* do the tests on hardware representative of equipment
small- and medium-sized companies would be using, and has been (afaik)
forthcoming about the test setup (at least to the extent that they can
given the restrictive licensing of some of the tested products).

- Thomas

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