As someone who has no idea about the cost of high-scale computing like this, is $150/hr reasonable? It seems like an amount that's hard to sustain to me, but I have no idea if that's a steady, all the time rate, or a burst rate, or what. Or if it's a set up you'd actually ever even need -- seems like from the examples they mention (like the Tweets), they're above the need by a fair amount. Anyone else in this sort of situation care to chip in on that?
There are literally thousands of companies that each hand over millions of dollars to Oracle on a semi-regular basis, for enormous server setups to store enormous data sets. This is a major improvement.
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As someone who has no idea about the cost of high-scale computing like this, is $150/hr reasonable? It seems like an amount that's hard to sustain to me, but I have no idea if that's a steady, all the time rate, or a burst rate, or what. Or if it's a set up you'd actually ever even need -- seems like from the examples they mention (like the Tweets), they're above the need by a fair amount. Anyone else in this sort of situation care to chip in on that?
Per the article, it's about 1/20th the cost that Google would charge you for the same number of writes.
I had seen that as well, actually. Is this the kind of data or transaction level that might only be expected for a Google level throughput?
Well, do you do 14.4 million serializable writes per second or anything close to that?
Note my original comment -- nope. I haven't worked on anything that would have a need anywhere near that amount of throughput.
There are literally thousands of companies that each hand over millions of dollars to Oracle on a semi-regular basis, for enormous server setups to store enormous data sets. This is a major improvement.