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by bingbing 5161 days ago
EVE Online runs on a single SQL Server 2008 instance:

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Tranquility#Database_Serve...

serving hundreds of thousands of users

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> At peak hours as of 2007 the database handles around 2-2.5k transactions per second, which generate roughly 40,000 input/output operations per second on the disks.

That's not much...

They're complex transactions. Inserts against dozens of tables, selects from dozens of tables. We're not talking about glorified KV lookups here.