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hinkleyyesterday at 8:39 PM0 repliesview on HN

Oracle’s wasn’t but I haven’t used it in a very long time so that may not be longer be true.

The problem though was that it had a single shared pool for all queries and it could only run a query if it was in the pool, which is how out DB machine would max out at 50% CPU and bandwidth. We had made some mistakes in our search code that I told the engineer not to make.