From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: MemSQL the "world's fastest database"?
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:45:42 -0400
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On 07/01/2012 01:00 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Considering I can build a pgsql 8.4 machine with 256G RAM and 64
> Opteron cores and a handful of SSDs or HW RAID that can do REAL 7k to
> 8k RW TPS right now for well under $10k, 20k TPS on an in memory
> database isn't all that impressive.
Again, their TPS numbers are useless without a contest of how big each
transaction is, and we don't know. I can take MemSQL seriously when
there's a press release describing how to replicate their benchmark
independently. Then it's useful to look at the absolute number.
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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services, and 24x7 Support www.2ndQuadrant.com
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