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Re:SQL Databases Don't Scale by nailer on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @11:10AM (#691592)
CPU core. Not CPU (which is generally taken to mean CPU die).
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Re:SQL Databases Don't Scale by rythie on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @04:04PM (#692325)
Really? That's 4 times worse than I thought then
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Re:SQL Databases Don't Scale by nailer on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @04:50PM (#692443)
Yep. Oracle are famous for this - at my office we often talk about counting the molecules to work out Oracle licensing.
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Re:SQL Databases Don't Scale by rythie on Sunday July 12, 2009 @02:43PM (#700431)
The thing is that this makes it even harder to scale because the cost of licensing additional nodes is now several times the hardware cost.
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