| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
| Cc: | Paolo Rizzi <gis(at)oicom(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL with PostGIS on embedded hardware |
| Date: | 2009-05-13 13:53:13 |
| Message-ID: | 4136ffa0905130653j7bf32c2cs3f13504255c3d46e@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
>> Good to know!!! I imagine that on a PS3 it would be _really_ fast... :-)
>
> well not really - while it is fairly easy to get postgresql running on a PS3
> it is not a fast platform. While the main CPU there is a pretty fast Power
> based core it only has 256MB of Ram and a single SATA disk available(though
> you could add some USB disks).
The nice thing about it is that TPC-C and other benchmarks all specify
their bottom-line number in some unit like Transaction per second PER
DOLLAR. So using a PS3 should be able to get ridiculously good results
compared to expensive server hardware...
--
greg
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