Yahoo!: New Benchmark Results Demonstrate Solaris 10 Advantage on OLTP Benchmark | Linux Today

Yahoo!: New Benchmark Results Demonstrate Solaris 10 Advantage on OLTP Benchmark

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2006

“Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new benchmark results
involving the performance of the open source MySQL database running
online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on 8-way Sun Fire
V40z servers. The testing, which measured the performance of both
read/write and read-only operations, showed that MySQL 5.0.18
running on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) executed the same
functions up to 64 percent faster in read/write mode and up to 91
percent faster in read-only mode than when it ran on the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server Edition OS…”

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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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