Tag Archives: benchmark

• MySQL Alternatives to MySQL March 15, 2012

  Have you been using MySQL for your web applications since your first foray into website development? Perhaps you now run, or are thinking about running, your own server and you will set up MySQL because that is what you have always used.

  Did you know there are alternatives? A NoSQL database is one of them, and it has its use cases, but that will need some consideration, and almost certainly some rewriting of your application, to take advantage of. Instead, let me talk to you about some databases that speak your applications language, namely MySQL's client server protocol. (more...)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
• PHP on Windows: The WinCache 1.0 Benchmark November 19, 2009

  Today Microsoft released the stable 1.0 version of their WinCache accelerator. Although Linux is still the most frequently used platform at Ibuildings, we have a significant and growing number of PHP on Windows deployments, and since WinCache is designed to speed up PHP applications it is an interesting product to us. The best way to put an accelerator product to the test is to benchmark it. While it's important to realise that benchmarks have their drawbacks, they are very useful to make relative comparisons, and that is exactly what we will be doing in this article.

  The benchmarks were carried out by Mark van der Velden, one of our PHP on Windows platform specialists.
  I'm going to describe his setup in a minute, but for those unfamiliar with the concept of acceleration, I'd like to point to this Wikipedia article which is a good primer on how PHP accelerators work and why you should use one.

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