It's been amazing watching the performance surge in postgres these past few years. I wonder if Red Hat or similar will try sponsoring a tilt at the TPC-C crown in future.
Back before Sun bought MySQL they started doing a lot of performance work on Postgres. They didn't go after TPC, but they did show it was only(?) 12% slower than Oracle for SpecjAppServer: http://www.informationweek.com/news/201001901
It's been amazing watching the performance surge in postgres these past few years. I wonder if Red Hat or similar will try sponsoring a tilt at the TPC-C crown in future.