* Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071128 11:13] wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > >Some interesting comments here: > >http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3162&p=10 > > Indeed, mysql 5.0 has poor scaling compared to postgresql (this affects > reads but severely affects writes). However when I tested the latest > beta of 5.1 about 6 months ago I found it had about 50% lower > performance than 5.0 in a read-only configuration. Maybe they had left > some debugging enabled or have since fixed it.
One thing that mysql can suffer from is the lack of row level locking for MYISAM tables, I found that to be a write performance killer with multiple concurrent accesses. INNODB is supposedly better. -- - Alfred Perlstein _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
