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Re:Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the w... by cma256 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:17AM (#45437356)
Its a financial database built for use cases where this invariant holds and built for enabling new use cases where this invariant prevented businesses from expanding into new industries. The creator says as much:

> Without much sweat for general purpose workloads.

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Re:Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the w... by tux3 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:25AM (#45437441)
Having a niche and expanding into new industries are all fine, there is no problem with having a DB filling a particular sub-segment of the market.

But writing that traditional SQL databases cannot go above these "100-1000 TPS" numbers due to Amdahl's law is going to raise some eyebrows.

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Re:Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the w... by milesskorpen on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:04AM (#45437884)
He clearly says this is in the context of "transaction processing" in the comment you're responding to.
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Re:Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the w... by cma256 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:40AM (#45437622)
> But writing that traditional SQL databases cannot go above these "100-1000 TPS" numbers due to Amdahl's law is going to raise some eyebrows.

I don't think that's controversial. Amdahl's law applies to all software. Its not a peculiar feature of SQL databases. The comment is well-contextualized, in my view, but reasonable minds may disagree.

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Re:Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the w... by WhitneyLand on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:35AM (#45437553)
You’re changing the subject to the company’s mission when the concern was about a specific claim made.
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Re:Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the w... by mbrock on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @11:46AM (#45439150)
A specific claim about OLTP processing under contention. Or how would you characterize the specific claim, specifically?
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