RE: Is it just me
- From: "Cary Millsap" <cary.millsap@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:52:21 -0500
Read-mostly, I'd say by 5:1 or greater in most cases.
If you ever saw a system that was write-mostly over the long term, then
there's data going in that's never coming out. You'd have to wonder why
someone would pay money to store things that are never retrieved.
Cary Millsap
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nuno Souto
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:03 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is it just me
Niall Litchfield apparently said,on my timestamp of 11/08/2004 8:52 PM:
> Directories - read more frequently than written
> Relational Databases - written more frequently than read.
>
> My experience of RDBMS systems is just the opposite. So do folk agree
> with the generalisation abve, or do you consider databases to be a
> read-mostly environment?
>
Read-mostly. By far.
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