Performance Agora: ORACLE Scalability Oracles

Cary Milsap, “Optimizing Oracle Performance” (O’Reilly, 2003). On p. 361, there is a definition of scalability expressed in terms of the response time (R). [ed. scalability: The rate of change of response time with respect to some specified parameter. For example, one may speak of the scalability of a query with respect to the number of rows returned, the scalability of a system with respect to the number of CPUs installed, and so on.] This stands in contrast to the way I developed my Universal Scalability Law, which is based on a kind of normalized throughput. … For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s how it works …