I thought so. Sounds like someone from marketing. The Internet hype of
companies growing forever at astronomical rates is over. (called Internet
bubble) with 5 * 10^6 hits per second you would have more than database
/hardware problems. You would have network problems and other
infrastructure problems. Clearly there are drugs involved here.
Jim
"chris" <chris-s_at_mailcity.com> wrote in message
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> chris-s_at_mailcity.com (chris) wrote in message
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> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to get an idea on the performance of Oracle, or what might
> > be required to get a performance in the region of 5 million queries
> > per second, say simple select queries on an indexed table.
> >
> > I can foresee that there are many other variables involved here, but
> > do you reckon it can handle it, any pointers on what sort of
> > configuration?
> >
> > Sorry for the vagueness of this question, but I only need a vague
> > answer!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> Okay,
>
> Thanks for the replies. It was a genuine question coming from some
> internal discussions on scalability and performance. We are absolutely
> aware that the hardware requirements would be more than significant to
> obtain this type of performance, but that is almost a side-issue.
>
> Fortunately then, it appears that reaching this level of performance
> is unlikely, I say fortunately because that means there must be a
> market for our solution!
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Chris
Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 08:04:22 CST
