Re: Postgres vr.s Oracle

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:17 PM, justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com> wrote:
> Where are you getting the $4 and $6 per transaction for PostgreSql. i just
> search through this list

You won't see it there because none of the PG vendors see a reason to
spend the time and money officially benchmarking Postgres only for it
to place last. Similar to Josh Berkus, I know where it ranks because
I (and several other EnterpriseDB developers) ran the tests to try and
get Postgres a TPC-C.

> Oracle only just in the last year dropped to below $1.00 it mixed bag from
> $3 to $52 (back on 2001)

Oracle hadn't run price/performance in awhile prior to that due to the
cost of the software. Still, Microsoft has had it below $1 since
2005.

> First Step in testing and comparing is agree on a Standard that everyone can
> agree to. Second step test the system without cheating which numerous
> software including Oracle, MS, and IBM have.

Cheating? It's an industry standard benchmark. And, for the record,
when I compared PG to Oracle on TPC-H, I didn't use Oracle's
additional features, I did a one-to-one comparison using the exact
same schema and indexes.

-Jonah