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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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