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by vidarh 4344 days ago
Even with a database it's dreadful. At 20MB/sec they need to value the time they have to wait very low before it'd be cheaper/faster to buy a small server outright and put a couple of ssd's in it if they do this kind of analysis more than a couple of times.

Or even load it up with enough memory to keep everything in RAM during normal operations. I can't remember the last time I worked on a system that did less than a couple of hundred MB/sec... And we generally buy servers in the $3k-$6k range, so nothing ridiculous.