[elephant-devel] Re: BDB vs postmodern

[John DeSoi]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Alex Mizrahi wrote:

> elephant reads/writes slots individually, so this means we cannot  
> have more
> than 1000-10000 slots operations per second. that sounds quite  
> prohibitive.

So with an SQL engine this translates to one SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE per  
slot value read or write? Are you using transactions and prepared  
queries with PostgreSQL? That might help some, but as you say it  
probably won't scale up very well.


John DeSoi, Ph.D.