Machine 								
Compaq Proliant Server ML 530								
"Intel Xeon 2.4 Ghz Processor x 4, "								
"4 GB RAM, 5 x 72.8 GB SCSI HDD "								
"RAID 0 (Striping) Hardware Setup, Mandrake Linux 9.0"								
"Cost - $13,500 ($1,350 for each additional 72GB HDD)"								
								
Performance Parameter				MySQL 3.23.52  		MySQL 3.23.52  		PostgreSQL 7.2.2  		
						WITHOUT InnoDB 		WITH InnoDB for 	with built-in support 		
						for transactional 	transactional support	for transactions
						support								
Complete Data								
								
Inserts + building a composite index								
"40 GB data, 432,000,000 tuples"		3738 secs		18720 secs		20628 secs		
"about 100 bytes each, schema on 
'schema' sheet"								
"composite index on 3 fields 
(esn, min, datetime)"								
						
Load Speed					115570 tuples/second	23076 tuples/second	20942 tuples/second
						
Database Size on Disk				48 GB			87 GB			111 GB
						
Average per partition						
						
Inserts + building a composite index						
"300MB data, 3,000,000 tuples,"			28 secs			130 secs		150 secs
"about 100 bytes each, schema on 
'schema' sheet"						
"composite index on 3 fields 
(esn, min, datetime)"						
						
Select Query  					7 secs			7 secs			6 secs
based on equality match of 2 fields						
(esn and min) - 4 concurrent queries 
running
						
Database Size on Disk				341 MB			619 MB			788 MB