Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-) But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we tested were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase. Regards, Ned Dan Browning wrote: Can you tell us what version of the (ahem) unnamed proprietary products you used? :-). For example

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Hi Adrian, We only used the released versions of each database. We'd be happy to run the tests again when MySQL 3.23 is official, or when Interbase ships a real ODBC driver for 6.0 for that matter. Regards, Ned Adrian Phillips wrote: It would have been more interesting if MySQL 3.23 had

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Doh! Sorry, I didn't cc Richard Brosnahan after all. He's at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ned Lilly wrote: Hi Jeff, i haven't played with interbase yet, but my understanding is they have two types of server -- the "classic" (process per connection?) and a "superserver" (multithreaded). i'm

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:21:25PM -0400, Ned Lilly wrote: Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-) But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we tested were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase. And in reply to the MySQL version comment/question, Ned said: "We only used

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:21:25PM -0400, Ned Lilly wrote: Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-) But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we tested were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase. And in reply to the MySQL version

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Chris Bitmead
Ned Lilly wrote: Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-) But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we tested were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase. That's very helpful. Can you also tell us if Proprietry 1 or Proprietry 2 was definitely NOT MS-SQL Server?

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Ned Lilly
Er... let me put it this way. Proprietary 2 prefers to run on Windows NT. Chris Bitmead wrote: That's very helpful. Can you also tell us if Proprietry 1 or Proprietry 2 was definitely NOT MS-SQL Server?

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Chris Bitmead wrote: That's very helpful. Can you also tell us if Proprietry 1 or Proprietry 2 was definitely NOT MS-SQL Server? * Ned Lilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000815 18:59] wrote: Er... let me put it this way. Proprietary 2 prefers to run on Windows NT. It's oracle??? j/k You have

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-15 Thread Chris Bitmead
Ned Lilly wrote: Er... let me put it this way. Proprietary 2 prefers to run on Windows NT. The performance is so bad it must be MS-Access :-). Chris Bitmead wrote: That's very helpful. Can you also tell us if Proprietry 1 or Proprietry 2 was definitely NOT MS-SQL Server?

[GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread Ned Lilly
Greetings all, At long last, here are the results of the benchmarking tests that Great Bridge conducted in its initial exploration of PostgreSQL. We held it up so we could test the shipping release of the new Interbase 6.0. This is a news release that went out today. The release is also on

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread Bryan White
Greetings all, At long last, here are the results of the benchmarking tests that Great Bridge conducted in its initial exploration of PostgreSQL. We held it up so we could test the shipping release of the new Interbase 6.0. This is a news release that went out today. The release is also

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread Steve Wolfe
1) Using only ODBC drivers. I don't know how much of an impact a driver can make but it would seem that using native drivers would shutdown one source of objections. Using ODBC is guaranteed to slow down the benchmark. I've seen native database drivers beat ODBC by anywhere from a factor

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Steve Wolfe wrote: 1) Using only ODBC drivers. I don't know how much of an impact a driver can make but it would seem that using native drivers would shutdown one source of objections. Using ODBC is guaranteed to slow down the benchmark. I've seen native

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

2000-08-14 Thread Ned Lilly
Marc's right... we opted for ODBC to ensure as much of an "apples to apples" comparison as possible. Of the 5 databases we tested, a native driver existed for only the two (ahem) unnamed proprietary products - Postgres, Interbase, and MySQL had to rely on ODBC. So we used the vendor's own ODBC