I recently had a chance to run some benchmarks of PostgreSQL 9.2devel on an IBM POWER7 machine provided by IBM and hosted by Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab. I’d like to run more tests, but for a first pass I decided to run a SELECT-only pgbench test at various client counts and scale factors. This basically measures how quickly we can do primary key lookups in a completely read-only environment. This generated a pretty graph.Here it is.
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Performance and Scalability on IBM POWER7






