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Um... why the hell does the network care whether I am doing random or sequential access? Your left that part out of your argument.

• Nextgrid 3y ago
  Ah sorry, my bad. You are correct that you can fire off many random access operations in parallel and get good throughput that way. The problem is that this is not possible when the next IO request depends on the result of a previous one, like in a database where you must first read the index to know the location of the row data itself.
  • Ericson2314 3y ago
    OK thanks yes that makes sense. Pipelining problems are real.
    • Ericson2314 3y ago
      (The network indeed doesn't care, but bandwidth of dependent rather than independent accesses depends on latency)