Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 10:21:10 -0400
From: "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Benchmarks WAS: Sun Talks about MySQL
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To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:40:25 -0400
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> 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
>   

I am sorry but I am far from catching my emails:

Best thing is to work with TPC-E benchmarks involving the community.  
(TPC-C requirements is way too high on storage and everybody seems to be 
getting on the TPC-E bandwagon slowly.)

Where can I get the latest DBT5 (TPC-E) kit ? Using the kit should allow 
me to recreate setups which can then be made available for various 
PostgreSQL Performance engineers to look at it.


Regards,
Jignesh