On 23-Sep-06, at 9:00 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote:
I find the benchmark much more interesting in comparing PostgreSQL to
MySQL than Intel to AMD. It might be as biased as other "benchmarks"
but it shows clearly something that a lot of PostgreSQL user always
thought: MySQL gives up on concurrency ... it just doesn't scale well.
cug
Before you get too carried away with this benchmark, you should
review the previous comments on this thread.
Not that I don't agree, but lets put things in perspective.
1) The database fits entirely in memory, so this is really only
testing CPU, not I/O which should be taken into account IMO
2) The machines were not "equal" The AMD boxes did not have as much ram.
DAVE
On 9/23/06, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yep. From what I understand, Intel is 8 to 10 times the size of AMD.
It's somewhat amazing that AMD even competes, and excellent for
us, the
consumer, that they compete well, ensuring that we get very fast
computers, for amazingly low prices.
But Intel isn't crashing down any time soon. Perhaps they became a
little
lazy, and made a few mistakes. AMD is forcing them to clean up.
May the competition continue... :-)
Cheers,
mark
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