On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Pascal Cohen <pcohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello and best wishes for this new year. > I have a question concerning the H2 DB. > http://www.h2database.com/html/main.html > I've read (on their site) that they got better perfs than PG or MySQL in any > case (embedded in a Java application and even as a standalone server). > Tests seem a bit "light" with a single thread benchmarking the DB but the > results seem anyway interesting. So, in other words, it's not really that interesting. :) How well a db runs with a single thread really doesn't mean a lot unless you're only using it for single user embedded or batch processing. I'd like to see a simple pgbench style (i.e. mixed reads and writes with transactions) benchmark with 5, 10, 50, 100 users, etc... That would tell you something interesting. Since they haven't published a benchmark with > 1 user, I'm willing to bet that the performance with > 1 users is not so good, and gets worse as you add users. http://tweakers.net/reviews/649/8/database-test-sun-ultrasparc-t1-vs-punt-amd-opteron-pagina-8.html Now that is an interesting benchmark. Notice how MySQL is a good 20-30% faster with one user? More importantly see what it does with many users, and how it behaves as the number of users increases. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general