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"His first [hardware] appliance was developed as engineers found that hardware bottlenecks slowed the pace at which computers could process information stored i
by blackguardx 16y ago
"His first [hardware] appliance was developed as engineers found that hardware bottlenecks slowed the pace at which computers could process information stored in Oracle's database software."
Are they sure it wasn't the poorly written software?
Is it really easier to design hardware nowadays than to optimize a huge mess of enterprise software?
- gaius 16y agoThe Exadata stuff is really good. It's to data processing what a GPU is to graphics. Think compiling SQL and running it on the storage controller. It's not a matter of the database finding the right blocks on the disk any more - the database doesn't even see the blocks that don't match the SELECT.