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In partnership with IBM we researched PostgreSQL scalability on modern Power8 servers. That statement and the linked Russian blog white paper[1] makes it seem
by devy 10y ago
In partnership with IBM we researched PostgreSQL scalability on modern Power8 servers.
That statement and the linked Russian blog white paper[1] makes it seem like a Power8 specific and Power8 is a "a massively multithreaded chip"[2]. I wonder how far off it would be to x86-64?
[1] https://habrahabr.ru/company/postgrespro/blog/270827/ https://habrahabr.ru/company/postgrespro/blog/270827/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8
- dimfeld 10y agoThe article says a few lines down, "The optimization #1 appears to give huge benefit on big Intel servers as well, while optimization #2 is Power-specific. After long rounds of optimization, cleaning and testing #1 was finally committed by Andres Freund." Also, the chart indicates that the benchmarks shown were run on Xeon chips.