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How the Wayback Machine Works

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-big-hard-drive dept.

tregoweth writes: "O'Reilly has an interview with Brewster Kahle about how The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine works, with lots of juicy details about how the biggest database ever built works."

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  1. 200 transactions/second? by selan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having so few transactions for a database of this size probably helps them run without needing large expensive machines. Many VLDBs support thousands of transactions per second. I found a list here of top ten winners of a very large database scalability contest. The winner for peak performance was something like 20,000+ TPS.