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Archive for July 9th, 2007
PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark
July 9, 2007It’s the first real benchmark published with PostgreSQL. While plenty of bloggers have posted a variety of informal performance tests, only an industry-standard and peer-validated benchmark is sufficient to assure potential users that they’re making the right choice of platform. Given some of my conversations with large corporate customers, I expect this benchmark to influence corporate software buyers.
No more “slow elephant.” For ages a reputation of sluggish performance has dogged the PostgreSQL project, due to both unfavorable comparisons with MySQL back in 1998 and due to our ongoing lack of auto-configuration (yes, yes, I’m working on it!). This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL, but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it’s hard to compare directly). This is something we’ve been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it.
Why pay more? As I said, almost as fast as Oracle. While the list of Spec publications on affordable commodity hardware is sparse, there are some. For example, the 874 JOpS@Standard on Oracle 10+Itanium+HP-UX. That’s less than 15% faster than our PostgreSQL publication.
