Why Databases Batch Their Writes: Group Commit, Explained

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When a database tells you a transaction is committed , it’s making a promise: even if the power dies one millisecond later, that data will still be there when the machine comes back. Keeping that promise has a specific, unavoidable cost, and understanding it explains a whole family of database tuning knobs you’ve probably seen and never quite understood. The cost is fsync . Writing data to a file…

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