Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!jef From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: New News (not GNU News) Message-ID: <14863@well.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 89 01:30:56 GMT References: <2203@prune.bbn.com> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 16 In the referenced message, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) wrote: }I think that one particularly interesting problem about netnews is that it }is such a dynamic database -- a megabyte a day of turnover. Very few text }retrieval and hypertext systems are cut out for that kind of thing. I thought it was more like three megabytes a day now. Even that is only 34 bytes per second. A commercial database such as Sybase (where I was working when I designed the SQL news database) has no problem handling data rates hundreds of times higher. The indexing speed (and/or space) is more important than the turnover rate. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef "It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side." -- Frank Zappa