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Streaming a Database in Real Time

Roland Piquepaille writes "Michael Stonebraker is well-known in the database business, and for good reasons. He was the computer science professor behind Ingres and Postgres. Eighteen months ago, he started a new company, StreamBase, with another computer science professor, Stan Zdonik, with the goal of speeding access to relational databases. In 'Data On The Fly,' Forbes.com reports that the company software, also named StreamBase, is reading TCP/IP streams and using asynchronous messaging. Streaming data without storing it on disk gives them a tremendous speed advantage. The company claims it can process 140,000 messages per second on a $1,500 PC, when its competitors can only deal with 900 messages per second. Too good to be true? This overview contains more details and references."

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  1. Re:Seriously, Michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Michael can't answer. His mouth is full of Roland Piquepaille's dick.

  2. Re:THE TRUTH ABOUT ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Very interesting. What percentage does Michael get? Any guesses?

  3. Hard To Believe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    that yet another Roland link got spammed here. Why have the people he steals his "write ups" from done something about this? Maybe that's a way to get him to stop spamming Slashdot?

  4. Re:THE TRUTH ABOUT ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sounds a lot like the open source model to me.

  5. Re:Seriously, Michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Go home you stoopid packy raghead.