By sacx
via randombugs.com
Published: Jun 18 2009 / 18:25
We are living interesting times … MySQL was first buyed by SUN and now SUN was buyed by ORACLE. I don’t know what future will reserve for MySQL, but in this moment it seems MySQL is coming very very close to PostgreSQL. We are NOT talking about MySQL with MyISAM, we are talking about MySQL with InnoDB, because I’m directly interested in a set of properties what PostgreSQL already have them built-in and MySQL achieve them through InnoDB (and the new Maria Data plugin). This properties are Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability = ACID, in other words, very stable, good integrity and crash proof database. Why an ACID database? Sometimes we are more interested in ACID for our data than raw speed. For example do you keep your savings to a bank who is running a NON ACID database? I think you understand my concern.
Comments
bloid replied ago:
Graphs would be better than tables
My poor eyes and brain ;-)
dgary replied ago:
buyed?
overtheline.myopenid.com replied ago:
another bullshit benchmark.
Noone will ever bother to apply all the patches to mysql anyway, compare MySQL as a distro not as a hack job
Also MySQL doesnt perform, everyone knows that, so whats your point?
I can show you tests where postgres falls down miserably. So Im not sure why anyone would even care about your results not only because they are misleading but because people who make these decisions know way more about mysql and postgres than you ever will.
sacx replied ago:
Sometimes bulshit benchmarks can help you to decide what database you will choose.
Gene Gotimer replied ago:
MySQL performs well for certain jobs. PostgreSQL performs well for others.
I don't see anything misleading about the benchmark he ran. He was explicit about the set up and the tests he ran. The numbers are the numbers. He didn't make wild claims or drawn sweeping conclusions, but ran some tests and showed how fast they ran.
rogovskiy replied ago:
It seems like an ok benchmark, he speced the systems and configuration options. Gave numbers - graphs would be better.
What I like about it is that the test was done on consumer level machine but not on 75k$ Dell blade or something which not many people / orgs can afford.
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