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Re:Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientD... by aschampion on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:43AM (#16376011)
Postgres is configured extremely conservatively by default. While it isn't reasonable to spend time tweaking each database, at least running pgtune would be reasonable for Postgres.
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Re:Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientD... by jsteemann on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:47AM (#16376041)
I think it's definitely reasonable to tune important production databases.

But for many people databases have become commodity applications that they install and then forget. So even in reality not all installments will be properly tuned.

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Re:Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientD... by etxm on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:26AM (#16376390)
Who does this?!

I know it happens because I inherit them often. But seriously knock it off.

Errrrr. Better yet don’t, job stability.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Re:Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientD... by robbyt on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:50AM (#16376070)
Which is why many apps are slow... People search for a new toy, rather than learn what they already have.
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Re:Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientD... by rlpb on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:35AM (#16376480)
> But for many people databases have become commodity applications that they install and then forget.

It seems unlikely to me that this group of people would reach benchmark posts.

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Re:Performance Benchmark 2018 – MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OrientD... by rsynnott on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:29PM (#16377485)
People using them that way probably don't care about performance very much, though.
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