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Michael McGrady
Principal investigator AF081_028 SBIR
Chief Architect
Topia Technology, Inc
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Cel 1.253.720.3365

On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Sim IJskes - QCG <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16-12-10 14:55, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>> However, we should be able to do, say, hundreds of millions of
>>> transactions in a day in real-time critical systems such as the FAA
>>> or the stock market with data affinity and integrity and all the
>>> other "ilities". If Outrigger cannot do this, it is of no interest
>>> to us.
>> 
>> The current record for a relational database doing simple transactions
>> is 30 million transactions per minute (Oracle/SPARC TPC-C). Your mileage
>> may vary, but there is no inherent limit on relational database scaling
>> that puts a few hundred thousand transactions per minute out of reach.
> 

The experience in the industry is that writing directly to a database is too 
slow and reaches either a cost or a performance ceiling .  The prime candidates 
for a tuple-space application in the real world is lost, I think, if you write 
to a database and not to at least a front end cache.  CISCO, Oracle, etc are 
all going, going, gone in this direction.  It's not an option in our case.

> Apart from that, it would be very interesting to see how a COTS DB backed 
> javaspace whould behave in practice. And it could be the first step into 
> producing alternative persistence mechanisms. In the early stage it would be 
> comfortable to know we don't have to prove the correctness of a cots-db. In a 
> later stage we can always look at lifting the transaction based blockstorage 
> layer from derby or another java based db for instance.
> 
> Gr. Sim
> 
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