Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:32, David Costa wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Robert Treat wrote:
> >
> > One potential problem... I don't think that my$ql can actually handle
> > the osdl tests. On the bright side iirc the osdl folks switched to
> > studying postgresql instead of sapdb (aka max$ql) because they could
> > not
> > get the performance they needed from sapdb, so you might be able to do
> > a
> > comparison there. But this has always been a problem with benchmarking
> > my$ql with postgresql... any test complex enough to show off
> > postgresql's capabilities tends to cause my$ql to fall over... not
> > saying you shouldn't do it, just saying finding a good benchmark might
> > be tricky.
>
> Very true. I admittedly know very little on benchmarking but I was
> thinking with something combined with practical real life tests
> e.g. testing with real popular  php applications for example something
> which runs on both (e.g. Phpbb ) and a sample application.
>
> Sometimes the professional tests have little real life meaning for a
> developer. Of course they might be a way to run some
> other benchmarks.
>
> When I come across to some benchmarks like this one
> http://php.weblogs.com/oracle_mysql_performance where they used
> PostgreSQL 7.2.3 on Win2000 well...it makes be think what the average
> PHP developer will get out of it.
>
>
> >
> > BTW David, I'm sure you've seen
> > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3?page=1 right?
>
>
> yes I did but is not very new, this is why a new test with the latest
> pgsql might dissipate the speed myth.
>
> I have used MySQL and SQLite too but event with relatively big
> applications and a load of traffic I can't yet
> see any speed difference with PostgreSQL.  Secondly, it's not all about
> speed. Data integrity should come first IMHO.
>

Incidentally, if you haven't read the blog entry in this weeks weekly
news, give it a spin; shows comparison times on my$ql and postgresql php
connection times...

Robert Treat
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