Two years ago on phpbuilder.com, there was a performance comparison between
MySQL and PostgreSQL. Tim Perdue simulated load on various
sourceforge.net pages. See:
http://phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3?print_mode=1
George Essig
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>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:54:51 -0500
> From: Steve Lane <slane@fmpro.com>
> To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL
> Message-ID: <B957959B.10424%slane@fmpro.com>
>
> Are there any current benchmarks showing postgres' performance against
other
> major dbs? I've only seen one, and I think it's a couple of years old.
Eweek
> profiled major commercial dbs and had mySQL as the open source
> representative. Not even a whisper about PgSQL. I'd love to see some
current
> numbers, just to fend off with a stick the people who keep asking me why
I
> don't use mySQL.
>
> -- sgl