Database insert performance

Question

We are planning to implement a system for logging a high frequency of market ticks into a DB for further analysis. To simply get a little what kind of storage performance we can

Answer 1

BerkeleyDB might be worth a look if your data can be represented as key/value pairs (as if in a PERL hash or similar data structure). It's fast, multiclient, and transaction-safe, even if it is not the latest wizbang thing.