Benchmark Results For Postgresql, Mysql, Firebird

[Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>]

Dear list,

I have posted some sample results for the simple benchmark project 
(http://benchw.sourceforge.net) that I maintain.

I have not made much of this on the page concerned 
(http://benchw.sourceforge.net/benchw_results_open3.html), but Postgres 
pretty much hammers the competition for load, index and query. What is 
quite interesting is that the queries are *all* GROUP BY aggregations - 
not usually regarded as Pg's strongest area - and here it is doing very 
well at them.

As the project maintainer I don't really want to make a whole lot of 
noise about it, but I thought the Advocacy folks might find it useful to 
know of a benchmark where Pg significantly outperforms Mysql (grin).

regards

Mark