Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD
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Msg-id 4734B884.9080501@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD  (Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD  (Dimitri <dimitrik.fr@gmail.com>)
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Bill Moran wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 11:11:18 -0500 (EST)
> Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
>>> If the queries are complex, this is understable.
>> The queries used for this comparison are trivial.  There's only one table
>> involved and there are no joins.  It's testing very low-level aspects of
>> performance.
>
> Actually, what it's really showing is parallelism, and I've always
> expected PostgreSQL to come out on top in that arena.

Isn't it showing Postgres winning even without parallelism.

At 1 threads, Postgres looks like 800TPS where MysQL comes
in at about 600TPS on their Opteron charts.

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