Re: Database performance comparison paper.

In response to Shelby Cain <alyandon@yahoo.com>:

> Excerpt from the document:
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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.

The amazing thing is that PostgreSQL still compared favorably, in _spite_
of this obvious configuration bias.

I'm going to have to set up a system and compare a properly tuned MySQL
to a properly tuned PostgreSQL to see what happens ...

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.