Thousands of DebitCredit Transactions-Per-Second: Easy and Inexpensive
Jim Gray, Charles Levine · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2007
A $2k computer can execute about 8k transactions per second. This is 80x more than one of the largest US bank's 1970's traffic - it approximates the total US 1970's financial transaction volume. Very modest modern computers can easily solve yesterday's problems.