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PostgreSQL shows how far you can get with a single big box and using multiple cores and shared memory. It's incredibly powerful and the vast majority of applica
by lozenge 3y ago
PostgreSQL shows how far you can get with a single big box and using multiple cores and shared memory. It's incredibly powerful and the vast majority of applications never have data big enough to warrant "100s of machines".
- merb 3y agoand even they are looking into changing its shared memory and process model to work and make it multi-threaded: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/31cc6df9-53fe-3cd9-af5b-ac0d801163f4%40iki.fi https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/31cc6df9-53fe-3cd... probably a way more problematic effort than no gil python tough and it might fail