Hi all, Google has specially designed file system 'Goolgle File System' too.
KM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > > <[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
