I had found pile of MySQL and PostgreSQL benchmarks on various platforms which I have not seen before. Very interesting reading. It does not share too much information about how MySQL or PostgreSQL was configured or about queries. Furthermore MySQL and PostgreSQL has a bit different implementations (ie SubQueries avoided for MySQL) so do not [...]
eWeek tests OpenSource stacks and .NET
July 17, 2006 By 7 Comments
Have you seen recent eWeek benchmarks which test OpenSource stacks and compare them to .NET ? Here is what was compared and here are results. Results make me ask number of questions – why WAMP would perform 6 times better than LAMP ? Why Python would be faster than PHP on Windows but slower on [...]
Sysbench evaluation of iSCSI performance
July 6, 2006 By 2 Comments
Partha Dutta posted pretty interesting post about iSCSI vs SCSI performance using SysBench. This is nice to finally see some iSCSI benchmarks done with MySQL – something we were planning to do for a while but never ended up doing, mainly due to lack of hardware available for tests. It is also good to see [...]
Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?
June 9, 2006 By 141 Comments
If you’ve been reading enough database related forums, mailing lists or blogs you probably heard complains about MySQL being unable to handle more than 1.000.000 (or select any other number) rows by some of the users. On other hand it is well known with customers like Google, Yahoo, LiveJournal,Technocarati MySQL has installations with many billions [...]
