Archive for the 'benchmark' Category

Comparing BenchmarkSQL Performance on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5 to Windows Server Enterprise

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

“This paper compares the performance of an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) based

Rackspace Cloud Servers versus Amazon EC2: Performance Analysis

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Testing amazon and rackspace instances: kernel compile time and “how much it costs to compile kernel on $instance”, and IO tests using IOzone — in short: rackspace is cheaper/better, about 2x on average across the board. Note about “m1.small” i.e. s…

PostgreSQL versus Oracle!

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Full Text Search benchmark, Oracle vs Postgres, on 2x Quad core Xeon, 8G RAM, 2 SSDs x RAID 1. Pg is being slightly faster when query contains several words, once word count increases, oracle leaps ahead (suggesting a more mature FTS implementation)

Perfomance: C vs Java [Azul Systems - Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog]

Friday, March 12th, 2010

somewhat useful comparative review

[What linux file system does google use?] Answer: [Jfs-discussion] benchmark results

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Currently ext2, will move to ext4 . Read the discussion for more info

MySQL vs PostgreSQL Benchmarks | Random Bugs

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

yet another mysql vs postgresql benchmark using “OSDB”. Small difference between the two, but consider that benchmark was done on 2-way SMP, 3GB ram, 1 SATA DISK and a small dataset.

11-2009 lb-l: Re: [load balancing] Re : Layer4 and Layer7 TPS

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

discussion on LB-L (load balancing mailing list) about load-balancer performance benchmarks, vendor’s BS and so on.

Apache passenger vs nginx mongrel | Matt-Darby.com

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app

Nehalem Routing Pefromance Test Results, 2009 Netdev conf, Vayatta.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

test results for linux routing performance on recent intel “nehalem” CPUs and 10G ethernet

A Comparison of Open Source Search Engines « zooie’s blog

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

this is not a strict benchmark, but rather a broad review. Results should be taken as a starting point in research, not as benchmark results.