This looks similar to things I've seen before. MyISAM can be made to look twice as fast as Postgres if the application is cooked to throw away transaction processing, updates, and referential integrity, none of which MyISAM seems to support well. I plan to make a point of this to people, as I personally have experience working with RDBMSs in the past and understand the importance of these capabilities. However not everyone I talk to will have any experiences with databases and understand the issues. That's why I was looking for a more balanced benchmark that exercises said capabilities. -Will -----Original Message----- From: Dann Corbit [mailto:DCorbit@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 March 2009 18:26 To: Scott Marlowe; Will Rutherdale (rutherw) Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Is there a meaningful benchmark? Here is another interesting benchmark with a particular user's application: http://blog.page2rss.com/2007/01/postgresql-vs-mysql-performance.html -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
