It's very interesting to see a lot of the traditional assumptions behind system design reserach change with hardware. In-memory databases, choosing O(n) cache-s

It's very interesting to see a lot of the traditional assumptions behind system design reserach change with hardware. In-memory databases, choosing O(n) cache-sensitive algorithms over O(log n) random access ones, and single nodes that are starting to look more like shared-nothing distributed systems were all major themes at VLDB this year.