Honestly, I think more people should consider at least starting with an in-memory-with-snapshotting architecture than a transactional database architecture. Les

Honestly, I think more people should consider at least starting with an in-memory-with-snapshotting architecture than a transactional database architecture. Less so for request/response style user interaction, but this is, IMO, less common than it should be for incremental (/batch) processing of large static or replayable streaming data.