Python - what is the fastest database ?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Feb 28 13:43:53 EST 2005
<martijn at gamecreators.nl> wrote in message
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>> How is it possible that google (super big database) is super fast?
> What type database do they use / software ?
On the hardware side, Google's secret is massively parallel cluster
computing, coupled with proprietary software for splitting tasks and
joining results. They have perhaps 200,000 CPUs. A query might be given
to hundreds of them for a fraction of a second.
Terry J. Reedy
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