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http://dammit.lt/2007/01/26/mysql-covering-index-performance/ mysql index performance tech internals (interesting)

PostgreSQL: Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL: Comparing Reliability and Speed in 2007

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.83 some generic info about eternal “MySQL vs PostgreSQL” topic from postgres site

Slashdot | Slashdot's Setup, Part 2- Software

http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/22/145209 some details about software setup for slashdot

MySQL Performance Blog » FaceBook Search, Search for social networks

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/08/12/facebook-search-search-for-social-networks/ facebook uses mysql, I didn’t know

read-write SQL performance

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-August/006709.html benchmarking of sysbench in read-write, pgsql vs mysql under FreeBSD