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If a terabyte is a lot of data to you -- and it is for many, many things, then this post is right; you should buy as much RAM as you have data, and access it ac
by adrianratnapala 9y ago
If a terabyte is a lot of data to you -- and it is for many, many things, then this post is right; you should buy as much RAM as you have data, and access it accordingly.
The commenters who are saying disk has a different price/performance trade-off that is still valuable are also right, but that applies to large data sets.
- AndyNemmity 9y agoI worked on a petabyte in memory hana cluster. It all depends on what you're doing, and how important it is to you. I don't even know what a large data set is anymore. I think my general definition is one you won't put into memory, whatever your threshold is for that.