[dba-Tech] MemSQL Claims to be Fastest Database on the Planet - 80, 000 queries per second

In The Google Story, it said that the whole design was to use thousands of
off-the-rack boxes and never repair any of them, just swap them out
whenever anything broke. So I conclude that there was no necessity to buy
server-class machines, but rather lots and lots of consumer boxes, and to
regard them as no more important than disposable razors.

Which is not of course to say that serious boxes would be wasted. Obviously
not. But even buying current boxes one at a time, retail, 8 gigs of RAM and
4 cores are not much money, especially when you don't need a keyboard or
monitor or mouse or dvd burner etc. Imagine what the price is when you buy
in hundred-lots or thousand-lots.

A.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I was wondering how this application could be useful as no matter how much
> memory in a PC, it will never be enough to run a full database but there is
> another feature which makes this all possible.
>
> According to the company:
> " MemSQL enables you to connect multiple machines together to store massive
> amounts of data in memory for lightning fast performance. MemSQL handles
> terabyte-scale workloads by connecting MemSQL and MySQL nodes together,
> conferring real-time access for your most valuable data as well as
> long-term
> historical lookback. And, MemSQL scales up with multiple CPU cores.  Bottom
> line: the more CPU on the machine, the faster MemSQL can go. "
>
>