Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1095C9FB513 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:16:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75963-01 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:16:10 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-254.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D409FB4F5 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:16:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (or-67-76-146-141.sta.embarqhsd.net [67.76.146.141]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l69JG2FL022241; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:16:05 -0700 Message-ID: <469289CF.8070007@commandprompt.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:17:35 -0700 From: "Joshua D. Drake" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jonah H. Harris" CC: Greg Smith , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark References: <46925AD9.9020208@sun.com> <36e682920707090921u433f9702n907e3a8d562a61ac@mail.gmail.com> <46926208.1070003@commandprompt.com> <36e682920707091204j4f3e191dgf71da0cf6e9fed0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <36e682920707091204j4f3e191dgf71da0cf6e9fed0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3610/Sun Jul 8 04:24:35 2007 on projects.commandprompt.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (lists.commandprompt.com [192.168.2.159]); Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:16:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200707/66 X-Sequence-Number: 25750 Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On 7/9/07, Greg Smith wrote: >> There's just enough hardware differences between the two configurations >> that it's not quite a fair fight. For example, the MySQL test had 10K >> RPM >> drives in the database server storage array, while the PostgreSQL one had >> 15K RPM ones. A few other small differences as well if you dig into the >> configurations, all of which I noted favored the PG system. > > Agreed. > PostgreSQL still beats MySQL ;) Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/