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PostgreSQL goes after MongoDB; benchmarks show PostgreSQL in the lead

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Quick, Dirty (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-25 22:03 (#2SY1)

Very quick and dirty test. He says right off the bat he's comparing default out of the box performance. There are so many possible tunings and usage scenarios that the only fair way to test is after tuning by experts in each product. While interesting, this test seems to mean nothing?

Re: Quick, Dirty (Score: 2, Interesting)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2014-09-25 22:31 (#2SY4)

Performance out-of-the-box shouldn't be underestimated. Not every database is a huge and mission-critical task deserving hours of your DBA's time to tune. In fact the overwhelming majority of database uses are quite the opposite, just some mundane back-end tasks for storing and collecting data.

If tuned performance was important to people, MySQL would never have caught-on as the M in LAMP... Instead, MySQL got popular because any idiot could install it and it would seem to work at decent speeds right away. You only got a rude awakening much later...

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