[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My basic question to the community is "is PostgreSQL approximately as fast > as Oracle?" > > I don't want benchmarks, they're BS. I want a gut feel from this community > because I know many of you are in mixed shops that run both products, or > have had experience with both. > > I fully intend to tune, vacuum, analyze, size buffers, etc. I've read what > people have written on the topic, and from that my gut feel is that using > PostgreSQL will not adversely affect performance of my application versus > Oracle. I know it won't adversely affect my pocket book. I also know that > requests for help will be quick, clear, and multifaceted. > > I'm currently running single processor UltraSPARC workstations, and intend > to use Intel Arch laptops and Linux. The application is a big turnkey > workstation app. I know the hardware switch alone will enhance > performance, and may do so to the point where even a slower database will > still be adequate.
I have always been told we are +/- 10% of Oracle. That's what I say at talks and no one has disputed that. We are +10-30% faster than Informix. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
