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Re:A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big... by mathattack on Friday September 27, 2013 @03:47PM (#6459075)
Structure of the database matters a lot. Going column-oriented [1] will improve performance dramatically before you scale up the processing power.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

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