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1. MySQL disputes benchmarks..

   Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> — 2000-08-16T04:26:31Z

   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/16/0010230&mode=thread
   
   http://www.devshed.com/BrainDump/MySQL_Benchmarks/
   
   

2. Re: MySQL disputes benchmarks..

   Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 2000-08-16T06:56:13Z

   > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/16/0010230&mode=thread
   > http://www.devshed.com/BrainDump/MySQL_Benchmarks/
   
   The thing that's especially funny to me is that Monty is the first one
   to cry, but has been making qualitative, unsubstantiated claims about
   Postgres' supposed shortcomings for years (OK, he thinks they are
   substantiated by *his* single-user benchmarks :). And contrary to his
   claims in the past, imho Postgres has been quite silent on the issue of
   testing fairness and MySQL attributes, trying to let the product do the
   talking instead.
   
   Great Bridge (not "the Postgres people" as he claims) actually went to
   the trouble to do specific multi-user stress tests using published
   industry-standard benchmarks, which is the closest thing to a fair test
   we've ever seen. Everyone was suprised by the results. It will be nice
   to see a few more of these kinds of fair tests in the future.
   
   All imho of course...
   
                         - Thomas