Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com, Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle
Date: 2008-12-15 21:51:29
Message-ID: 87skopnm3i.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:

> Jonah,
>
>> Where you should be looking is at the price/performance benchmarks,
>> because that's where Postgres plays. Last time I checked Postgres on
>> a TPC-C, albeit being 100% free, was anywhere from $4.00 to $6.00 per
>> transaction depending on the hardware. Compare that to Oracle's $0.68
>> or SQL Server's $0.84.
>
> You can't compare DBT2 with TPCC. They're not the same benchmark.

Eh? DBT2 is a (partial) implementation of TPC-C. The nature of benchmarks is
that small infelicities could invalidate the whole result though and there are
definitely infelicities in DBT2's implementation of TPC-C.

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Gregory Stark
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