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PostgreSQL Benchmarking

Benchmark testing can be expensive, and proprietary software licenses often restrict what kind of benchmark testing you can do, and how/whether you can even publish your results. So it's nice to see this blog item from Josh Berkus about PostgreSQL benchmark results.

In case you didn't know, Josh Berkus is a core member of the PostgreSQL development team.

About that benchmark: here's a link to the published benchmark report. According to Josh, the key take-aways from this report are:

• This is the first real (that is, formal) PostgreSQL benchmark to be published. Josh notes that:
  

  
  only an industry-standard and peer-validated benchmark is sufficient to assure potential users that they're making the right choice of platform. Given some of my conversations with large corporate customers, I expect this benchmark to influence corporate software buyers.



• The results should help disprove the misconception that PostgreSQL is sluggish compared to MySQL or Oracle.


• The results should also demonstrate the degree to which PostgreSQL running on commodity hardware can be very, very competitive with Oracle running on more expensive brand-name machinery.

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