Re: PostgreSQL Benchmarks

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 09:26, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hrm.  I just saw that the PHP ADODB guy just published a bunch of database
> benchmarks.  It's fairly evident to me that benchmarking PostgreSQL on
> Win32 isn't really fair:
> http://php.weblogs.com/oracle_mysql_performance
> *sigh*

There's fundamental flaws with this test. Well, more than that.
First off, if you read the hardware specs, you know that this guy is,
well, either ignorant, or flat out lying. There is no question of that -
I'm familiar with the Sun E450, and it's slowest available module is the
250MHz UltraSPARC with I believe 1MB eCache. You cannot equip an E450
with two 167MHz (NOT 166MHz) processors.
Secondly, it's obvious from this blatant error that the person in question
is clearly not qualified to be performing a benchmark like this, or any benchmark
involving cross-platform testing. We have no comparable numbers on the E450's
for the other engines, whatsoever. PHP and MySQL and PostgreSQL all run on
Solaris, and gcc is available from SunFreeware as a Solaris package.
Point blank, this benchmark is forged or doctored, the person performing it
is clearly not qualified to do this, and it completely discredits itself with
a total lack of disclosure. I think it is more important to simply point this
out, than to argue Pg is better than this that or the other. Just my $0.02.
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