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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For the record--Taco's response to this by bonch · 2005-01-21 16:43 · Score: 5, Informative

I asked him why so many Roland articles get accepted, and he said he doesn't even look at the submitter's name and that Roland must be submitting good articles.

I then told him about the controversy over it in posters' minds, and he said it was just a "new successful troll meme." Good luck getting through to Slashdot's editors, because clearly Malda does not consider this anything to take seriously.