Re: [HACKERS] (download ANSI SQL benchmark?) Re: Postgres article

At 10:24 AM 11/13/00 -0800, Limin Liu wrote:

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<excerpt>This's great.  I have tested Postgres and MySQL with the
benchmark shipped with mysql and (of course) MySQL out perform Postgres.

</excerpt>

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So how many simultaneous read/write processes does the MySQL benchmark
fire up?


Why test a benchmark provided by the mysql folk?  That's like trying the
benchmark

provided by Intel for the initial Pentium 4 announcement and ignoring all
the

benchmarks they didn't provide you because AMD thunderbird+DDR (AMD 760
chipset)

kicks P4 butt on many of them.


I should hope you're not so naive as to suppose that the MySQL folk would
ship a

benchmark showing better performance by PG (or Oracle, or Sybase etc)?


I also hope that the PG crew, and Great Bridge, never stoop so low as to
ship

benchmarks wired to "prove" PG's superiority.


They MySQL folk have been liars and cheaters for years, there's no reason
to

put any faith into their benchmark efforts.


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