Re:Speedy Transactions in Multicore In-Memory Databases
by amelius on Monday February 27, 2023 @05:59AM
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Yeah, but flights are relatively expensive and aren't scheduled as often as e.g. social media messages are sent. Also, you always have to be prepared for bursts of requests. And of course some new requirements can always be thrown in by management which may invalidate any assumptions you made about speed.
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Re:Speedy Transactions in Multicore In-Memory Databases
by jandrewrogers on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:01AM
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Any data source where events are created by intentional human action, including global social media platforms, have relatively trivial event rates even during bursts. It isn't the event rate that gets you, it is the rest of the workload processing and serving content. Just landing and storing the events can be easily handled by a single modern server with capacity to spare.
Machine sourced data, by comparison, has event rates that are orders of magnitude higher.