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Sorry, Microsoft, .NET Framework is simply incapable of performing this kind of work
I assumed he was going to say that some extremely optimized C++ was required to wring every last cycle out, which is reasonable. But then he goes on to say Java should be used. Java & .NET are comparable in terms of performance.
I don't know about the DB thing, but is SQLServer actually a lot slower than those other DBs? DB2 I'd believe and maybe Informix. But Oracle? and MySQL?!
Come on, get serious. I can accept that for a huge distributed system, Windows maybe doesn't scale so well but I see no problems with .NET or SQLServer.
I've built things with MySQL a few times, and it works great, but I thought it was a thing for dinky databases not for anything on the scale of the LSE. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I've built things with MySQL a few times, and it works great, but I thought it was a thing for dinky databases not for anything on the scale of the LSE. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The TPC-E benchmark simulates the OLTP workload of a brokerage firm. The focus of the benchmark is the central database that executes transactions related to the firm’s customer accounts. Although the underlying business model of TPC-E is a brokerage firm, the database schema, data population, transactions, and implementation rules have been designed to be broadly representative of modern OLTP systems.
You can use MySQL for "proper" projects, but I don't know about something this big. Apparently eBay use it, they were looking recently to outsource development of some customizations to improve performance for their needs. I was tempted. as it would be a god thing to mention you'd done, but I don't know how DBs actually work internally!
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