Re: prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

From: Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>
To: tony <tony(at)tgds(dot)net>
Cc: Mark Rae <mrae(at)purplebat(dot)com>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, postgres list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql
Date: 2005-03-15 20:51:03
Message-ID: 1110919863.4089.616.camel@jeff
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On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:07 +0100, tony wrote:
> > by the time 3 clients are running, postgres is getting through the
> > queries 1.90/1.34=1.42 times faster
>
> That is very interesting!!!
>
> I have several webapps on my server each one opens several queries to
> the database from _each_ JSP - often more than three... So the hunch
> that I had all along was right: PostgreSQL is a much better back end for
> Tomcat/JSP than MySQL.
>

Be careful assuming that. DB benchmarks are hard to do in a general
sense. His results probably indicate a general trend, but you should
test your application yourself to get a real result. His pattern of SQL
queries might be very different from yours.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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