Re: Is there a meaningful benchmark?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Scott Marlowe
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:57 PM
> To: Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is there a meaningful benchmark?
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
> <rutherw(at)cisco(dot)com> wrote:
> > Even if such a question is answered, it isn't going to be the only
> > factor.  For example I have collected reasonable numbers already on
> > footprints of different RDBMSs, because embedded guys might find that
> > important if they're restricted to 64MB of flash.  On the other hand
> if
> > they went with some of the newer solid state drives with gigs of
> space,
> > then a few packages using 10s of MB wouldn't be such a problem any
> more.
>
> If you're looking at embedded usage, and footprint is an issue (it
> usually is even if you think it won't be) look at sqllite. Pretty
> good embedded db and lightweight. Pgsql is not intended to compete in
> the embedded space.

FastDB is another good option there (it's a portable, embedded memory mapped database):
http://www.garret.ru/fastdb.html

An advantage for the SQLite option is that the grammar is a subset of PostgreSQL grammar, so if you need to scale up, you have a ready path.