Database speed tests (mysql and postgresql) - part 1

There has been major changes in mysql and postgres over a couple of years. Mysql has been focusing on improving and optimizing innodb. Postgres on the other hand has been focusing on database replication and hot standby. Recently postgres came out with version 9.0 which has built-in replication and hot standby - the two most requested feature in postgresql. Earlier people used to shy away from
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