database performance - test setup

database performance: test setup: Other Databases

Databases that were not tested this time around

Sybase ASE

From the license agreement:
"Results of benchmark or other performance tests run on the Evaluation Programs may not be disclosed to any third party without Sybase's prior written consent."
This is unfortunate because the test results looked promising.

Oracle

There are a few reasons for not testing Oracle:

The installer fails during client code compilation on Fedora Core 6
It requires old (buggy) versions of the development libraries and tools
The GUI installer does not work with a highres setup (fonts and widgets end up hidden)
Like Sybase, Oracle does not like seeing benchmarks published.

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server does not run on Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris.

Others

Because of a lack of market share and/or lack of a tested framework backend for the JDBC driver.

This includes Ingres, MaxDB, all the embedded databases, Java object databases, JDBC file backends, ODBC bridges, etc.

If you would like to see another system tested, feel free to contribute by either getting the relevant vendor(s) to agree to the publication of the reports or by writing a new database backend for mts.
New database backends are small (a few dozen lines of code) and relatively easy to write using the unit tests. Any existing backend can be used as a template for writing a new one quickly.