Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Feb 2007 22:30 UTC, submitted by Antoine Martin
DevLoop has just published a
free paper (US mirror) [zipped .pdf]
benchmarking some popular database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, DB2, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, on Linux using JDBC. The focus here is on non-real setups where we can analyze the individual aspects that might affect system performance. The code is available (GPL) so that anyone can reproduce the results.
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Believe it or not, I am doing enterprise application developement which heavily uses MySQL. We are providing large data sets (tens of GBs) to our customers that their application read but (almost) never update these data, so what is better then MySQL here? Free, small, simple to install and maintain. There are many more use-cases for DBs then seems to fit into your head, so try to investigate why and how various enterprises use MySQL *before* judging them. For application I am talking about, switching to twice slower DB just because you decided it is "real" DB is not an option. Don't know about you, but test is very useful for me, because I *do know* what features these DBs support and it is very informative to know how performace compares for various workloads. As of JDBC layer, yes, it can be buggy and make bad image of DB itself, but then again, In java you and I access DBs using these JDBC drivers.