On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:54:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My basic question to the community is "is PostgreSQL approximately as fast > as Oracle?"
My personal experience comparing PG to Oracle is across platforms, Oracle on Sun/Solaris (2.7, quad-proc R440) and PG on Intel/Linux (2.6 kernel, dual P3/1GHz). When both were tuned for the specific app I saw a 45% speedup after switching to PG. This was with a customized CRM and System Monitoring application serving ~40,000 trouble tickets and monitoring 5,000 metric datapoints every 5-30 minutes. The hardware was definitely not comparable (the Intel boxes have more horsepower and faster disks), but dollar for dollar, including support costs, PG is the winner by a BIG margin. YMMV, of course, and my results are apparently above average. Another big plus I found was that PG is much easier to admin as long as you turn on pg_autovacuum. --miker ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
