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gaius on May 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are Oracle and DB2 still on top of TPC-C? A ro...

No, not impossible, but all those they tested performed worse than classic RDBMS. Locking turns out to be a hard problem...

gouranga on May 17, 2012 [–]

Don't lock then. You can have transactions through the reservation pattern and operation ordering without locking.

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