Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>>
>> Well, running an official TPC benchmark is an interesting process.
>> First, you have to have a spec-compliant benchmark kit, which we
>> don't.
>
> Well, then the first order of business would be to write a benchmark kit. I
> have been thinking for a while that we should make our own maintained
> version of the DBT+* suite, or whatever other suite is appropriate. And
> then start running it.

We're slowing tuning a system for the dbt2 kit in Portland with the
hardware from HP.

> The rest of this discussion, while interesting, cannot really lead to any
> improvements, because none of the results and analyses can be published.
> Like, you know, "I have these great insights into important problems, but I
> cannot tell you about them."
>
> Is it possible to write a possibly eventually compliant benchmark kit under
> open-source terms?

Yes. I believe the only restriction is to not use the kit in a way
that competes with the TPC. Using the kits for our developing efforts
is ok.

Regards,
Mark