June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 46m
English
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How MySQL Compares to Other Databases
Our users have successfully run their own benchmarks against a number of open source and traditional database servers. We are aware of tests against Oracle server, DB/2 server, Microsoft SQL server, and other commercial products. Due to legal reasons we are restricted from publishing some of those benchmarks in our reference manual.
This section includes a comparison with mSQL for historical reasons and with PostgreSQL as it is also an open source database. If you have benchmark results that we can publish, please contact us at benchmarks@mysql.com.
For comparative lists of all supported functions and types as well as measured operational limits of many different database systems, see the crash-me web page at http://www.mysql.com/information/crash-me.php.
How MySQL Compares to mSQL
- Performance
For a true comparison of speed, consult the growing MySQL benchmark suite. See Section 5.1.4.
Because there is no thread creation overhead, a small parser, few features, and simple security, mSQL should be quicker at:
Tests that perform repeated connects and disconnects, running a very simple query during each connection.
INSERT operations into very simple tables with few columns and keys.
CREATE TABLE and DROP TABLE.
SELECT on something that isn’t an index. (A table scan is very easy.)
Because these operations are so simple, it is hard to be better at them when you have a higher startup overhead. After the connection is established, MySQL server should perform ...
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