Unicamp study/benchmarking: Postgres, Firebird/Interbase, Oracle and Mysql

[J. Antas]

Prof. Cardoso Guimar�es(*), author of the book "Fundamentos de Bancos de 
Dados" (Database Fundaments) just published the results of a DBMS 
benchmark including: Postgres, Firebird/Interbase, Oracle e Mysql.

Surprisingly (or not) PostgreSQL was the best performer.
Materials, methods and results are at: 
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~celio/livrobd/docs/benchmark.html

(*) Prof. Cardoso Guimar�es is an associate professor at the Computation 
Institute - Unicamp - Brasil. [http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~celio/]

J. Antas