Re: Database performance comparison paper.

On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:29, Shelby Cain <alyandon@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 2.  What is compared here - "Apples and Oranges"
> The setups are as standard as can be.  The only principle guiding the
> installation of all the software is simplicity.  No optimization, no
> tweaks, no editing of configuration files.
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> That doesn't sound like a very useful methodology for benchmarking.
>

In particular, it means they used MyISAM with no fsync for MySQL.  They
might as well have sent those inserts to /dev/null, it would have been as
useful a test.

They also didn't use transactions.

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