On 11/2/07, Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> I'll point out that the very article you're pointing me to, which I've read before, btw, has this in it: "Why pay more? As I said, almost as fast as Oracle. While the list of Spec publications on affordable commodity hardware is sparse, there are some. For example, the 874 JOpS@Standard on Oracle 10+Itanium+HP-UX. That's less than 15% faster than our PostgreSQL publication. " On commodity hardware, single image machines, PostgreSQL is a match for Oracle. On clustered hardware, Oracle still has a lead. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
