Re: Sun Talks about MySQL

[Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>]

Greg Smith wrote:

> An interesting data point is they advertise a 10-15% gain in DBT2 
> results. I've started thinking about a 2008 update to my "PostgreSQL vs. 
> MySQL" paper that covers PG 8.3 and MySQL 5.1.  I'd love to have a 
> similar comparision using that same benchmark of PG8.2->PG8.3.  I recall 
> Heikki was doing lots of tests with DBT2 for EnterpriseDB comparing 
> those two releases like that; anybody know of a good summary I could 
> utilize there? I thought that was one of the benchmarks that got a 
> 20-30% speedup on going to 8.3 because it really took advantage of HOT 
> in particular.
I did some benchmarks for 8.2 and 8.3. I'll show them at PGCon in a few 
weeks. But I didn't try MySQL. It would be good if someone should do 
such a comparison.


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