http://diznix.com/dizwell/archives/153 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)
http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2009/09/java-vs-c-performance-again.html somewhat useful comparative review
http://zooie.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/a-comparison-of-open-source-search-engines-and-indexing-twitter/ 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.
http://lwn.net/Articles/321702/ Message to Kernel Mailing List about differences between XEN and KVM .
http://mjtsai.com/blog/2002/11/25/perl_vs_python_vs_ruby/ interesting post that provides syntax difference the languages and some discussion about their importance. Good code examples.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/VersionControl wiki page from FreeBSD people descibing their experineces and requirements for version control system. They [finally] swicthing from CVS [to Subversion]
http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2008/03/01/happenings-in-the-vcs-world/ post about git and state of the things in [open source ] version control software
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.83 some generic info about eternal “MySQL vs PostgreSQL” topic from postgres site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks