Archive for the 'database' Category

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.

[RUS ]Массив? Или как лучше? / PostgreSQL : Форум на SQL.RU | Array? or how to do it better? – A way to deal with serializable objects in PostgreSQL

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

this is a discussion from russian database forum SQL.RU that describes 2 common ways of storing serializable objects in RDBMS.

[RUS] PostgreSQL vs MySQL

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries

PGQ Tutorial – PostgreSQL Wiki

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=665075 Examples how to use PgQ queue in postgres

A look at the MySQL forks [LWN.net]

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

describes recent forks, patch-sets and build of mysql. If you looking at this page deciding which fork of mysql will be better suited for your new project — maybe better to use PostgreSQL instead

Analysis from the Bottom Up | The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

tells about problems with IT in HealthCare and Obama’s electronic records plan from one person’s 1fst hand experience. Make user u read the comments. (allow 30-40 minutes )

What happened to Hot Standby?

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Josh Berkus explaing why hot-standby replication did not make it into postgresql 8.4

Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores | Richard Jones, Esq.

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

comparative review of different DHT scalable systems

Pitrtools – Trac /set of tools for setting up PITR on PostgreSQL/

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.

SourceForge.net: BenchmarkSQL

Friday, February 20th, 2009

tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs