On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) <rutherw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having trouble with the tweakers reference below. > > I was hoping to see something where hardware platform is held constant while RDBMS is varied, but it seems to be just the opposite. Or maybe I didn't read the article the right way. The tweakers test is actually VERY telling. With a constant load, how well do the database scale as you improve the hardware you've given them to run on. Hardware is cheap, downtime is not. If you can toss a 16 core server at a performance problem for $20,000 or so, that's probably way cheaper than watching your main db chug under load and go down twice a day. Conversely, telling the bossman you need that 16 core server to improve performance and seeing the new server collapse under load faster than the old one due to poor concurrency is not gonna win you a lot of brownie points. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
