Oracle-L: Re: an article comparing Oracle to other databases

From: Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:14:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D8152.20031128031425@fatcity.com>

> And since we all know that memory accesses are
> ~14k times faster than disk, these benchmarks
> just drive the point home.

Of course you talk about "raw" memory access vs. "raw" disk access here... When you have several memory protection and disk caching mechanisms these figures will change..

Tanel.

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