Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Three open source databases - some benchmarks
Author Aage Johansen
Ann W. Harrison wrote:
> marius popa wrote:
>>Results are with firebird 1.5.x
>>http://benchw.sourceforge.net/benchw_results_open3.html
>>any opinions ?
>
>
> 1) My guess is that the test was created by a Postgres programmer.

I would never have guessed ...


> 2) If they had some level of concurrent update/read, you'd see different
> results.

Maybe this isn't the best part of Postgres. Or MySQL.


> 3) They've got firebird running through a TCP loopback on a dual
> processor system - results are not surprising.


They did use Classic, so the dual processor wasn't totally lost.

All queries used NATURAL - is this typical? Or interesting.
All queries used old-style syntax. Would Fb do better with explicit joins?


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Aage J.