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Re:One Database To Rule The Cloud: Salesforce Debuts Databas... by jarito on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:26AM (#1979089)
This is my question. 300 milliseconds is nice, but once you add HTTP overhead, then TLS overhead, it will be almost impossible for your site to respond to YOUR user in less than a second or two.

We'll see in 2011 I guess.

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Re:One Database To Rule The Cloud: Salesforce Debuts Databas... by arethuza on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:30AM (#1979106)
There are other cloud-based database services out there - and from my (fairly limited) experience the latency involved is rather noticeable.

It might be different if you do bulk uploads of data and then spend a lot of time querying it and retrieving relatively small reports - but that's probably not what most applications spend their time doing.

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