Imagine the revolution when UltraRAM becomes common and inexpensive. Then everybody can have terabytes of storage as cheap as hard disks and faster than today's

Imagine the revolution when UltraRAM becomes common and inexpensive. Then everybody can have terabytes of storage as cheap as hard disks and faster than today's RAM. Benefits: * Fast. 2.5x faster (at least) than RAM when running at the same bandwidth because it does not need to be refreshed. This was proven by Intel's insanely expensive persistent Optanium memory. RAM requires an electronic refresh at least every 65ms or it loses its contents. * Archival. Contents could last, with integrity, past a 1000 years. * Massive. The goal isn't to replace RAM, but to replace hard disks. Since UltraRAM will be faster than RAM functional obsolescence immediately applies. Storage and memory become a single volume. When UltraRAM does become available technologies dependent upon memory optimization and current storage innovation also achieve functional obsolescence for the first time in computer history, which includes database applications. Databases will essentially become a high level storage mechanism on top of faster lower level storage mechanisms like file systems.