People would not be discussing speedier solutions, if there weren't these fast NoSQL DBs. Plus 1 for NoSQL. Another aspect where this solution will always lose

People would not be discussing speedier solutions, if there weren't these fast NoSQL DBs. Plus 1 for NoSQL. Another aspect where this solution will always lose under real load, is the speed loss due to locking and blocking. CouchDB for instance uses MVCC, which never blocks.