| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Steve Wolfe <steve(at)iboats(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bryan White <bryan(at)arcamax(dot)com>, Ned Lilly <ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others |
| Date: | 2000-08-15 00:06:31 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0008142105260.92127-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Steve Wolfe wrote:
> > 1) Using only ODBC drivers. I don't know how much of an impact a driver
> can
> > make but it would seem that using native drivers would shutdown one source
> > of objections.
>
> Using ODBC is guaranteed to slow down the benchmark. I've seen native
> database drivers beat ODBC by anywhere from a factor of two to an order of
> magnitude.
I haven't had a chance to take a look at the benchmarks yet, having just
seen this, but *if* Great Bridge performed their benchmarks such that all
the databases were access via ODBC, then they are using an
'apples-to-apples' approach, as each will have similar slowdowns as a
result ...
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