[ Thanks to E.
Stride for this link. ]
“Which is faster: PostgreSQL or MySQL?
“Scott Noyes: It’s easy to find benchmarks that
favor one database over another, depending on the hardware, the
configuration and the test. One database might do better on a
single-core machine with little memory, while another can take
better advantage of scaling to multiple core processors. One might
lead on reads while another leads on writes…”