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HammerDB v4.6 New Features Pt1: Python CLI Interface

HammerDB

Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw. Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw. You should already be aware that due to the Python GIL impacting multithreading performance it is not possible to drive a high-performance database workload directly from Python. Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. Yes, a bit like those 2nd-level caches we were talking about earlier, e.g. Ehcache from 2003 onwards. Who knew! ;).

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