Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB4F09FB2D4 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 11:56:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28995-02 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 11:56:27 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from h07.llord.com (unknown [195.140.142.194]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5929FB33C for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 11:56:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from par69-8-88-161-102-87.fbx.proxad.net ([88.161.102.87] helo=apollo13) by h07.llord.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HpmpY-00044u-Uu for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 16:56:21 +0200 Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:58:45 +0200 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Postgres Benchmark Results From: PFC Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Linux) X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: junk@peufeu.com, lists@peufeu.com, peufeu@peufeu.com, pfcaillaud@peufeu.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - h07.llord.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - postgresql.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - peufeu.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.792 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.127, BAYES_05=-1.11, RCVD_IN_NJABL_SPAM=2.775 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200705/375 X-Sequence-Number: 24765 I felt the world needed a new benchmark ;) So : Forum style benchmark with simulation of many users posting and viewing forums and topics on a PHP website. http://home.peufeu.com/ftsbench/forum1.png One of those curves is "a very popular open-source database which claims to offer unparallelled speed". The other one is of course Postgres 8.2.3 which by popular belief is "full-featured but slow" What is your guess ?