Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Feb 2007 22:30 UTC, submitted by Antoine Martin
Databases 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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by karolus on Thu 15th Feb 2007 12:29 UTC
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It doesn't look like scientific comparison as one cannot be sure what the author is trying to conclude. The performance of SELECT operation ? The performance of JDBC drivers ? The performance of JDKs ? Any serious System Architect would use it as it didn't adhere to any scenario in software development (Is here anyone who builds Inf. Systems without database optimization ? (I.S. != LAMP webpage)).