<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> How is it possible that google (super big database) is super fast? > What type database do they use / software ?
On the hardware side, Google's secret is massively parallel cluster computing, coupled with proprietary software for splitting tasks and joining results. They have perhaps 200,000 CPUs. A query might be given to hundreds of them for a fraction of a second. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
