Ouch. Your combination of ignorance and arrogance is painful to behold. If you don't know anything about a subject, take an inquisitive approach rather than a

Ouch. Your combination of ignorance and arrogance is painful to behold. If you don't know anything about a subject, take an inquisitive approach rather than a dismissive one. TPC is a non-profit that creates and publishes standard benchmarks that can be used to compare database systems. They had done so for over 20 years, and with widespread consensus among competing vendors (who outright hate each other) that the benchmarks are fair and representative of real work loads. Mysql and postgresql have both been in the benchmarks published by TPC. They are rarely there because people simply don't spend the time and money to do the benchmarks. Back when Sun was providing commercial support for postgresql, they ran benchmarks for postgresql and submitted them. Anyone is welcome to submit benchmarks of any database, running on any OS and hardware combination.