Episode 199: Michael Stonebraker on Current Developments in Databases
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OLTP Databases - Where Does All the Time Go?
If you have an OLTP database, chances are it fits in main memory. Less than 10% of the path length goes to doing useful work and 90% is all overhead. If we had profiled MySQL or Postgres, they would have looked very similar.
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