Waoh! I know what latency is and what throughput is , but when someone asks me this question , I was never able to answer it to me satisfaction. Now I can.
Thanks a lot! On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Jens Scheidtmann < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, hi Raj, > > in relational databases there are different targets for the optimizer: > Return the first record as fast as possible, even if reading through the > whole dataset takes longer (low latency) > Return all rows as fast as possible, even if reading the first record may > take a longer time (highest throughput) > > Best regards, > > Jens >
