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Re:Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL by manigandham on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:16AM (#16618989)
This isn't about raw physics and biology but rather the use of business applications by users, specifically with regards to analytics and exploratory queries.

Anything less than a second to run a query and return results is considered "instant" (also sometimes "interactive") for analysis.

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Re:Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL by thinkMOAR on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:58AM (#16619403)
Since the example data is stock data, i think it is safe to assume people don't want to be 249.9ms late with their purchase :)
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Re:Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL by manigandham on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:23PM (#16619638)
What? No human trades that quickly, and this is not about automated HFT trading systems but rather running database queries and what typical business users expect as "instant" results.
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