I know there are quite a few mysql fans in slug that like to
put down postgres, its pay back time :)
It looks like not everyone believed the microsoft/mindcraft style
benchmarks posted on mysqls web site.
http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-08-14-008-01-PR-MR-SW
"On the ANSI SQL Standard Scalable And Portable (AS3AP) benchmark, a
rudimentary information retrieval test that measures raw speed and scalability,
Postgres performed an average of four to five times faster than every other database
tested, including two major proprietary DBMS packages, the MySQL open source
database, and Interbase, a formerly proprietary product which was recently made
open source by Inprise/Borland."
"Interbase and MySQL fell apart under heavy usage. That's a
strong affirmation that Postgres today is a viable alternative to the market-leading
proprietary databases in terms of performance and scalability--and the clear leader
among open source databases.'"
These benchmarks are from an "independent" organisation [wink] [wink]
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