Very, very nice scaling performance under PGSQL is evident in the PDF, and I've no reason to assume the benches aren't legit. I think part fo the reason that PG was traditionally slower than MySQL was that it did lots of complicated locking to provide better scalability across processors, whereas we see MySQL performance dropping off after we go to more than eight cores. I think this was the same philosophy Sun took with "Slowaris", which was also far more scalabe than Linux at the time the moniker was in w
Very, very nice scaling performance under PGSQL is evident in the PDF, and I've no reason to assume the benches aren't legit.
Oh they are legit. The guy who did them has a thing for proper benchmark procedure and statistical analysis and is a physicist in real life.
He isn't an expert in MySQL and PostgreSQL but if he did underoptimize them, you can be assured he uderoptimized them in exactly the same way on both OS-es:)
Aye, I didn't expect they were - it's just a shock to see such a huge improvement almost overnight:D Development of the BSD's might appear glacial to those, like me, who are used to Linux, but it's refreshing to see that when they finally implement things they tend to get it very, very right.
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In short, wow (Score:5, Interesting)
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Oh they are legit. The guy who did them has a thing for proper benchmark procedure and statistical analysis and is a physicist in real life.
He isn't an expert in MySQL and PostgreSQL but if he did underoptimize them, you can be assured he uderoptimized them in exactly the same way on both OS-es :)
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