> At peak hours as of 2007 the database handles around 2-2.5k transactions per second, which generate roughly 40,000 input/output operations per second on the disks.
That's not much...
Re:Why Use Postgres
by jacques_chester on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @01:11AM
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They're complex transactions. Inserts against dozens of tables, selects from dozens of tables. We're not talking about glorified KV lookups here.
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