From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T22:28:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Mutithreading to implement near 7000 to 10000 mssage per min

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:52 +0900, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 14:22 +0900, Kaja Mohaideen wrote: 
> > we want to process 7000 to 10000 message and store it to the Database
> > perminute. we are trying through threads. can you please help me how we
> > do?
> 
> Use a quick language that's designed for massively parallel
> operations, not one of the slower scripting languages without proper
> support for parallelism.
> 
> I'm not trying to be glib here (although I may well be succeeding
> anyway).  What you are saying here looks an awful lot to me like "I
> want to hammer in this screw here.  Which wrench is best for the job?"
> Select your tools appropriately for the problem.  Don't try to reforge
> your wrenches into bizarre combination screwdriver-hammers.

Yes ... Erlang / Mnesia should be able to handle this, and then you
could write some Ruby code to extract the messages from Mnesia to a
"regular" RDBMS if needed.
-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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