Thursday, August 10, 2017

Bad News: Your Favorite Database Isn't the Best

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Bad News: Your Favorite Database Isn't the Best

We decided to answer one of the key questions in the database world: Which is faster, PostgreSQL or MySQL? This analysis has never been possible to do objectively before, but with recent advances, it now is. So we did it.

Database benchmarks are common, but true production measurements are rare. By working with large amounts of anonymized performance metrics from VividCortex's customers, we extracted the essential parameters of database performance with a mathematical model and analyzed the results of production database metrics in real-world environments.

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