Re: PostgreSQL scalability on Sun UltraSparc T1

Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> Tweakers.net has done a database performance test between a Sun T2000 (8
> core T1) and a Sun X4200 (2 dual core Opteron 280). The database
> benchmark is developed inhouse and represents the average query pattern
> from their website. It is MySQL centric because Tweakers.net runs on
> MySQL, but Arjen van der Meijden has ported it to PostgreSQL and has
> done basic optimizations like adding indexes.
>
> Arjen wrote about some of the preliminary results previously in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2006-06/msg00358.php
> but the article has now been published http://tweakers.net/reviews/633/7
> This is all the more impressive if you scroll down and look at the
> behaviour of MySQL (after tweaking by both MySQL AB and Sun).

I would love to get my hands on that postgresql version and see how much
farther it could be optimized.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Jochem
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