__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 10 May 2007 14:56 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> MySQL establish new record in Cluster Database
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source
>> | database, announced the results of recent DBT2 benchmarks of
>> | its MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition database.
>> `----
>>
>> http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=339
>>
>
> If these results had been true they would have been the crappiest results I
> have seen for a database of any kind for a very long time, then when I
> re-read that line and realised that it was 'per minute' actually I don't
> think any database has ever ran That slow in the history of computerdum.
>
> To compare this with most lists you have to divide by 60 to get
> transactions per second and I know for a fact that MySQL isn't that low
> (1.6K per second, get out of here).
>
> So what we seem to have is some kind of independant test who's results can
> not be compared with other tests.
>
> I think a tpc test is called for otherwise these results can only result in
> a bad press for MySQL AB, like when I read it and was struck by how crap
> the results were, fortunately I knew they couldn't be true, jernos and
> bloggers will just stop reading and start blogging.
I only found it in this one blog. It wasn't published elsewhere, so as you
suggest, it could be a benchmark performed by the clueless. There was
another such benchmark yesterday, also from some obscure company with a
strange Web site.
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