Re: 9i server performance, 5 million hits per second?

S.Llabres doodled thusly:

>Just my 2c and probably OT as not related to Oracle
>but there are databases claiming to support much higher
>throughput (real-time, in-memory databases, which
>can avoid lot of management overhead due to the
>fact that they do not have do manage any file i/o or
>caches/buffers.) One reference i have found is
>http://www.entitydatabase.com

hehehe! Some of us call those simply "tables in memory", as opposed to databases...
IOW, they are not databases in any real sense of the term other than some nebulous marketing definition. Wouldn't waste anytime with them.

>
>They report >10.000 transactions on a 140 SpecInt 92 computer

that means indeed they are not doing any I/O whatsoever: simple memory lookup. You don't need a "database" to do that: a simple 3GL compiler in a reasonable language such as C or Pascal will do the same. And a LOT cheaper!

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 05:18:38 CST