Re: Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

Hi Fabrice,

We just ran the benchmarks, the same software that the trade magazines use when they're
evaluating commercial products. The results speak for themselves.

We certainly don't want to over-boast... and I can assure you that every assertion in
that story was double and triple-checked for accuracy. People can draw their own
conclusions from the results - like all benchmarks, it's only useful inasmuch as it
gives you a directional indicator about the capabilities of the product. Particularly
in this case, since it was only a single-processor machine with only 1-100 users. But
we wanted to share the results of our testing with the community, and perhaps stimulate
more formal testing by other "unbiased" parties (e.g. the technical trade press).

Regards,
Ned

Fabrice Scemama wrote:

> Ned, I just love Postgres... I strongly believe it can compete
> with major commercial DBMS, and that it rules over free DBMS
> (be opensource or not, like MySQL).
>
> But I think Postgres' performance should not be over-boasted,
> because such behaviour could only mislead and possibly deceipt
> future users. As a commercial consulting company, you might
> consider adding some disclaimers to your benchmarks.
>
> Fabrice