Callum (not verified) on October 18, 2007 - 6:37am.
I realise this article is a couple of months old. Amazon just launched two new appliances, with 4 and 8 CPU cores and a stack load more ram. 8 CPU cores and 15Gb of RAM will definitely allow a database to scale to a reasonable size, although not as much as dedicated hardware obviously.
I realise this article is a couple of months old. Amazon just launched two new appliances, with 4 and 8 CPU cores and a stack load more ram. 8 CPU cores and 15Gb of RAM will definitely allow a database to scale to a reasonable size, although not as much as dedicated hardware obviously.