On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 02:44, Myth User wrote: > I know nothing about PostgreSQL. It's easy enough to find out - even to test on any scale. The only thing missing is a salesperson to buy you a free lunch while showing you a bunch of glossy photos. Sun thinks it is good enough to provice 24x7 support: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051117.1.xml And here are some common misconceptions explained: http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1172668,00.html > For the last several years I've only seen DB/2, Oracle, and SQL Server in > the top ten list here at TPC > > http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp The tpc doesn't necessarily reflect real-world performance and certainly gives no indication of real-world price/performance. > Some say that you can make numbers say anything but these tests are carried > out according to strict vendor independant rules and are audited by > certified auditors so there is no cheating possible. Each test has the full > specs and setup published so that anyone can and sometimes they do repeat > them. > > http://www.tpc.org/information/about/abouttpc.asp Yes, vendors are free to optimize their product for this particular test at the expense of real-world use. However all the proprietary database come with restrictions against publishing benchmark comparisons that would show more typical usage. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
