Streaming a Database in Real Time

Posted by michael on Friday January 21, 2005 @11:20AM from the never-query-in-the-same-river-twice dept.

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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Re:Has nothing to do with relational databases by grub · 2005-01-21 11:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Uh oh... You dared to slam Rolly. Prepare for the wrath of Mikey and his infinite mod points.

Lube thy anus.

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Re:speed focus by brer_rabbit · 2005-01-21 12:47 · Score: 4, Funny

How do you do relational queries on IRC traffic BTW? I must have missed that - "#select something" I guess...
you start with /join, of course...