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TigerBeetle’s Georg says the company built a custom object-storage client for its transaction-processing database that achieves more than 25 gigabytes per second on a single core.
Why it mattersIn the video, he explains that the client avoids off-the-shelf cloud SDKs to fit TigerBeetle’s engineering approach: static memory allocation, single-core asynchronous I/O and no blocking system calls or runtime dependencies. It’s a striking performance claim, and a useful reminder that database teams sometimes build their own plumbing when general-purpose tools do not fit. The figure comes from the video’s account, not a supplied independent benchmark.
Discuss: How much performance justifies maintaining a bespoke client instead of using a standard SDK?
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