Thursday, September 14, 2017

How to Handle One Million Transactions per Second on a Single CPU Core

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How to Handle One Million Transactions per Second on a Single CPU Core
How to Handle One Million Transactions per Second on a Single CPU Core

In my couple of my last articles, I was talking about persistence with in-memory databases. Check this out here and here.

In this article, I would like to touch upon the performance problems of in-memory databases. For starters, let's just talk about performance in the simplest case: when you change the value of a specified key. And let's simplify this case even further: assume there's no database server at all — I mean no client-server interaction over the network. So, the database resides totally inside your application's RAM space.

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