Yep, it's surprising how much performance you can get when you're not paying Oracle millions for licensing. A lot of people who think Oracle is amazingly fast,

Yep, it's surprising how much performance you can get when you're not paying Oracle millions for licensing. A lot of people who think Oracle is amazingly fast, think so because who puts a million dollar DB on thousand dollar hardware? Put any major DB on equivalent hardware and you'll get some pretty damn good performance.