> I have been using MySQL 5 on Windows XP/SP2 setup and just tried PostgreSQL
> 8.1 for the first time. Here are the ant run-install timings (from empty
> database) on my computer with each:
> MySQL 5 17 minutes
>
> PostgreSQL 8.1 7 minutes (almost one third of MySQL)
> I thought MySQL was faster than PostgreSQL!
When you turn off 'annoying details' like foreign keys and
transactions, it certainly is, at least for simple selects and
inserts. I have yet to see any good benchmarks for Mysql 5 with
InnoDB vs Postgresql. It would be especially interesting to see
benchmarks utilizing more complex queries.
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David N. Welton
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