Theoretically possible I guess. The current TPCC holder is 6million transactions per minute (mixed workload). But, that was on some, er, serious hardware: http:

Theoretically possible I guess. The current TPCC holder is 6million transactions per minute (mixed workload). But, that was on some, er, serious hardware: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=108061001 http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=10... I've personally seen 1000+ tps systems (60,000 tpm), but these were all big iron environments... I've seen commodity based (e.g. x86/Linux) environments up to about half that. However - all of that is just guesswork - A lot of how your would go about this would depend on your data. Are there natural partitions in the data? (time, user, geography, category?). And even if your page is tiny - say 10kb - That's, er - something like 1Gbps sustained (my math might be a bit off)? That's a lot of bandwidth.