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> MySQL outperformed Postgres. Although a statement like this is too general to mean much of anything, I doubt that MySQL with innodb (which should be used for
by ominous_prime 16y ago
> MySQL outperformed Postgres.
Although a statement like this is too general to mean much of anything, I doubt that MySQL with innodb (which should be used for most cases) ever bested Postgres in overall performance.
- wladimir 16y agoIndeed, (My)ISAM isn't really comparable to Postgres with regard to features anyway (transactions, for one), even if it is faster that's not a fair comparison. Only InnoDB is...
- jeffdavis 16y agoDBMSs are complex things. Any DBA proficient in both systems can show you a query (and table layout) in PostgreSQL that outperforms InnoDB and vice versa.