Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C562E005A for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:56:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81936-02 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:55:55 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB5F2E0079 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:55:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from jd-laptop (cmdalert.com [69.55.229.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3SKuAPW023286 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:11 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:55:27 -0700 From: "Joshua D. Drake" To: Gregory Stark Cc: "Josh Berkus" , "Euler Taveira de Oliveira" , "Greg Smith" , "postgres performance list" Subject: Re: Benchmarks WAS: Sun Talks about MySQL Message-ID: <20080428135527.554f6e2f@jd-laptop> In-Reply-To: <873ap5akme.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> References: <480F8C2D.6010806@emproshunts.com> <4811D1DD.9030401@otg-nc.com> <20080425130105.GA19447@crankycanuck.ca> <36e682920804250741p33d621f3gf35e6bdebe2e0531@mail.gmail.com> <20080425152053.GE19447@crankycanuck.ca> <481278E7.9030504@timbira.com> <87wsmlm90e.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> <4814BDB8.2030108@agliodbs.com> <877iei9w4r.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> <4815F648.9050901@agliodbs.com> <873ap5akme.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> Organization: Joshua D. Drake X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/M1Z3JW2pF/Ojl=o9681LAV8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200804/414 X-Sequence-Number: 29907 --Sig_/M1Z3JW2pF/Ojl=o9681LAV8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:40:25 -0400 Gregory Stark wrote: > We certainly can pass TPC-C. I'm curious what you mean by 1/4 though? > On similar hardware? Or the maximum we can scale to is 1/4 as large > as Oracle? Can you point me to the actual benchmark runs you're > referring to? I would be curious as well considering there has been zero evidence provided to make such a statement. I am not saying it isn't true, it wouldn't be surprising to me if Oracle outperformed PostgreSQL in TPC-C but I would sure like to see in general how wel we do (or don't). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake --=20 The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/=20 PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Liaison | SPI Director | PostgreSQL political pundit --Sig_/M1Z3JW2pF/Ojl=o9681LAV8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIFjm/ATb/zqfZUUQRAm7hAJoDtOjStcWNrPHk+t21VEjfQEgZKACfZr1U 2izBCGWjJxkkipTK/nUgTd0= =jqo8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/M1Z3JW2pF/Ojl=o9681LAV8--