Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

May I know if there is any other similiar RDBMS implementation like the SQL 2000's "Shared Nothing" technology?

In comp.databases.sybase Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> Shared nothing referes to system resources only.
> Versus shared everything or shared disk.. and so on.
> The trick is to minimize the network-traffic and the one there is,
> better be fast.
> There are certain types of queries that are more applicable for
> parallelization
> than others and it is also important to decide in how far it makes sense
> to e.g.
> replicate data on versus nodes.
> Scalability is not automatic. It depends heavily on the quality of the
> optimizer,
> the DB schema, infrastructure and the nature of the query.
> E.g. an insert of one row will not run faster by adding more machines.
> A select count(*) from t on a nicely partitioned table however will
> scale very well.
 

> Just my two cents
> Cheers
> Serge

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