One thing that I wonder is what sort of implications these will have on databases, both from an algorithms perspective (since disk access algorithms will change

One thing that I wonder is what sort of implications these will have on databases, both from an algorithms perspective (since disk access algorithms will change) and overall latency. I've been putting a little time to optimize our disk reads for the graph-store that we're using for Directed Edge and this has me wondering if long-term they'll be less relevant...