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Not just “traditional SSDs”, which are block-addressable. A byte-addressable Optane RAM would enable a database that no longer “thinks” in pages, but can indep
by branko_d 4y ago
Not just “traditional SSDs”, which are block-addressable.
A byte-addressable Optane RAM would enable a database that no longer “thinks” in pages, but can independently persist much smaller pieces of its internal structures, possibly leading to new paradigms compared to what we have now. Perhaps write-ahead logs, B-Trees and other stuff can be implemented better when you are no longer limited to writing entire pages?