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One modern PC server with PostgreSQL can handle about 1 mln transactions per second.

http://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towar...



In the comments the guy says the hardware the benchmark was running on had 3TB of RAM.

That's not average hardware. It's a couple hundred connections max running select statements as fast as possible on the best hardware they could afford to test against.

That doesn't translate into your CRUD app handling a million requests per second.




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