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Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware
Date: ,
Msg-id: 4A0AD330.4040806@kaltenbrunner.cc
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In response to: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Paolo Rizzi)
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PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Paolo Rizzi, )
 Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  ("Joshua D. Drake", )
  Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Paolo Rizzi, )
 Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  ("Fernando Hevia", )
  Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Paolo Rizzi, )
 Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (PFC, )
  Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Paolo Rizzi, )
   Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Tom Lane, )
    Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Paolo Rizzi, )
     Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner, )
      Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Greg Stark, )
   Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (PFC, )
 Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner, ) 
Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <> wrote:
>>> Good to know!!! I imagine that on a PS3 it would be _really_ fast... :-)
>> well not really - while it is fairly easy to get postgresql running on a PS3
>> it is not a fast platform. While the main CPU there is a pretty fast Power
>> based core it only has 256MB of Ram and a single SATA disk available(though
>> you could add some USB disks).
>
> The nice thing about it is that TPC-C and other benchmarks all specify
> their bottom-line number in some unit like Transaction per second PER
> DOLLAR. So using a PS3 should be able to get ridiculously good results
> compared to expensive server hardware...

I kinda doubt that - the PS3 is certainly not server grade hardware so
you can only compare it to a desktop and I would bet that the typical
desktop you get for the 400€(you can get >4GB RAM a quadcore CPU for
that) price of a PS3 is going to outperform it significantly for almost
every workload...


Stefan

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