[OSM-dev] OSMXAPI to be ported? (Was Re: Lean and mean Tile- and XML-API-Server)

[Stefan de Konink]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
>> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>>> Do you have a report detailing the performance differences, with
>>> documentation of the setup used, so that those result could be reproduced?
>> http://monetdb.cwi.nl/projects/monetdb/SQL/Benchmark/TPCH/index.html
> 
> I especially love this bit:
> 
> All systems were installed with their default settings

You know what the research goal is for MonetDB? A DBA-less envirionment.

So in their philosophy you would never ever have to tune your database 
yourself, because a smart database should do this by itself.

> No-one runs a serious installation on the default settings. All this
> test proves is that MonetDB has better default settings. Big whoop.
> Wake me up when there's a real test.

Look at the DVDshop benchmark ;) Same page, menu left, independent 
testing group.

And you might be interested how many people run out of the box settings 
on their database. But please take a peak in a MonetDB configuration, 
and see what you can configure with respect to tuning. *zero*


Stefan