From: Peter van Dijk Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 13:59:02 +0000 (+0100) Subject: stop saying mysql is a good choice for performance X-Git-Tag: dnsdist-1.7.0-beta1~12^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b505e8fb3c9dd6a58c7972e243af5243313b21b;p=thirdparty%2Fpdns.git stop saying mysql is a good choice for performance --- diff --git a/docs/performance.rst b/docs/performance.rst index 980f6338c2..610b8965f6 100644 --- a/docs/performance.rst +++ b/docs/performance.rst @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ Performance and Tuning ====================== -In general, best performance is achieved on recent Linux 4.x kernels and -using MySQL, although many of the largest PowerDNS installations are -based on PostgreSQL. FreeBSD also performs very well. +In general, best performance is achieved on recent Linux kernels with +the bindbackend, or if something more database-like is preferred, +the LMDB backend. Meanwhile many of the largest PowerDNS installations are +based on PostgreSQL or MySQL. Database servers can require configuration to achieve decent performance. It is especially worth noting that several vendors ship