Hello,

For school I am doeing a research on the preformance differences on databases when used in webservers.

What I am doeing is realy simple. Make 2 databases. 1 mysql and 1 db4o database and try to program the webserver as good as possible for both databases. However I need some proffecional advice. I want to make this test as valid and accurate as possible so I need to know what would be an good amount of testdata?

The website I want to test on will be some imaginary online profile website, like Facebook or mySpace. The amount of data I have right now is 50000 Persons that all together have 2.800.000+ friends(so reference to the same table) These persons all have a profile picture and have 5 pictures each profile wich makes in total a 300.000 pictures.

This all is running on 1 single computer with 3gb ram and a core2duo of 2ghz.

Is this amount of data enough for such a configuration or do I need more and where can I find(reference to my project) that this can be valid amount of data.

Greets