[postgis-users] MySQL-PostGIS performance comparison

[David Blasby]

The performance evaluation I did of MySQL's spatial component showed 
that MySQL was either significantly slower in some cases to slightly 
faster in some.

These differences may have been due to how the disk cache was being used 
(they were run on the same machine).

If were were to tell me MySQL's non-trasactional tables were 10-20% 
faster than Postgresql's transactional table, I'd believe them.  But, I 
dont believe its 1000% faster!

It sounds like there's something wrong with your query....

dave