Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th May 2006 15:42 UTC, submitted by marco
"Sun today announced new benchmark results involving the performance of the open source MySQL database running online transaction processing workload on 8-way Sun Fire V40z servers. The testing, which measured the performance of both read/write and read-only operations, showed that MySQL 5.0.18 running on Solaris 10 executed the same functions up to 64 percent faster in read/write mode and up to 91 percent faster in read-only mode than when it ran on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server Edition OS." Take a look at the item below, though.
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2005-11-15
Here's my take on the this benchmark:
ZFS was not used because ZFS it not available for Solaris 10, only Solaris 11.
The loads used were very large, and this was a massively parallel implementation. Sun used DTrace to optimize MySQL, saw a reasonable 10 - 15% performance increase (or something verabouts, I'm guessing here) over single server performance against Red Hat. They added more load and more servers in parallel to emphasize the performance benefit.
Yes, Solaris is faster than Red Hat under high loads. Yes, Solaris scales better to many processors. These claims have been made for some time, now here is the proof. Folks running single CPU servers under light loads may not see much performance difference between the two. But yes, Solaris scale up very, very well.
Sun is currently adding Solaris optimizations to PostGres as well. Looking forward to those numbers.