8 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: Above-board and beyond reproach?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Brian Timmins | 12 Apr 1999 05:42 | |
| Fred Lindberg | 12 Apr 1999 06:19 | |
| lu...@wxs.nl | 12 Apr 1999 06:24 | |
| Fred Read | 12 Apr 1999 06:48 | |
| Christopher R. Jones | 12 Apr 1999 07:02 | |
| Vivek Khera | 12 Apr 1999 07:57 | |
| Michael Widenius | 12 Apr 1999 08:10 | |
| Ed Carp | 13 Apr 1999 08:27 |
| Subject: | Re: Above-board and beyond reproach? |
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| From: | Fred Lindberg (lind...@id.wustl.edu) |
| Date: | 04/12/1999 06:19:26 AM |
| List: | com.mysql.lists.mysql |
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:42:41 +0200, Brian Timmins wrote:
Hands-on-heart, honest, comments anyone?
Be honest.
Col 1: speed on fastest OS for DB. Col 2: speed on linux 2.2.x Col 3: speed on NT 4.0
Footnotes for explanations.
A user may be stuck with NT. In that case, it's irrelevant what the max speed of the db is. The relevant info is the max speed under NT. OTOH - if you need to use Sybase, MySQL speeds become irrelevant, but the info that the same hardware can run the db 2-3x as fast with another OS becomes very important.
Footnotes: It's not hard to tweak the hardware/OS a little for a particular DB/OS. Thus, using one set of "identical hardware" can give different results from another. MySQL is much faster with a unix domain socket (*local host) than over the net. OTOH, then the benchmark program runs on the same host. Another db may not have that option.
IMHO, it's also important what "identical hardware" you need. I've for quite a while run MySQL together with mail and WWW serving on a 486/66/32MB. Low end hardware may run MySQL, but not any of the other alternatives.
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)