From: | Lew <lew(at)lwsc(dot)ehost-services(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo |
Date: | 2007-11-02 14:58:29 |
Message-ID: | QumdnRJMfu2IprbanZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@comcast.com |
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> PostgreSQL is ... still not in the
> same realm for really really big transactional sites, but man is it
> geting close fast.
I beg to differ. All anecdotal evidence, and also Sun benchmarks with
Postgres, show that it is not only "in the same realm" but can actually come
out ahead.
<http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/jAppServer2004-20070703-00073.html>
<http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/postgresql-publishes-first-real-benchmark-17470>
> This publication shows that a properly tuned
> PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL,
> but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms
> are different, it's hard to compare directly).
> This is something we've been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it.
There are links to the SPEC site which shows the tuning parameters.
--
Lew
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