Re: Benchmark comparing PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle

Robert Haas wrote:
>   
> The biggest flaw in the benchmark by far has got to be that it was
> done with a ramdisk, so it's really only measuring CPU consumption.
> Measuring CPU consumption is interesting, but it doesn't have a lot to
> do with throughput in real-life situations. 
>   
... and memory access. Measuring these two in isolation from any 
(real/usual) io system is interesting but perhaps only as a curiosity - 
however, it would become much more interesting if we could see how the 
results change when a disk based filesystem is used (or even raw for the 
big O and innodb and filesystem for postgres...).

regards

Mark