Re: AW: Open Source Database Routs Competition inNew Bench mark Tests

At 03:26 PM 8/16/00 +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>> That's how the normal TPC testing is done, I believe.  Except on huge
>> honkin' hardware.
>
>Right. And it's on huge honkin' hardware because you won't see a number
>published which doesn't *win* in the commercial wars. That said, I
>suppose you wouldn't have seen the GB results if they turned out sucky
>for Postgres. You probably wouldn't see GB anywhere if Postgres wasn't
>competitive in performance during their evaluation phase of the company
>startup :)

Exactly!  Little Stick Over River, maybe, but not Great Bridge with 
$25M of funding!

>otoh, GB *did* do the tests on hardware representative of equipment
>small- and medium-sized companies would be using, and has been (afaik)
>forthcoming about the test setup (at least to the extent that they can
>given the restrictive licensing of some of the tested products).

They even split index and data files onto different platters in
Ora...oops "Proprietary 1, V8.1.5", seems more than fair ...



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