Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances
by luhn on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:38PM
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Gravitron's value prop is you get 2x the physical cores for a slightly cheaper price. Intel wins at single-thread performance, but for parallel workloads Intel's hyperthreaded vCPUs can't keep up.
But you're right in that in the end it all depends on your workload.
I think they end up close to same price/performance as the Intel offerings as well once you invoke the compiler optimiser. The main benefit is better core scalability and lower energy usage which may work out as a net gain for database workloads.
As always it’s best to measure these things yourself with your expected workload.