Accounting data is so compact that the word “comparably” is doing all the heavy lifting in that statement. A large accounting system certainly prefers to have l

Accounting data is so compact that the word “comparably” is doing all the heavy lifting in that statement. A large accounting system certainly prefers to have large main memory, but even in the worst case scenario, we read from persistent storage at GB/sec and the processor has no trouble keeping up. You don’t have to get particularly smart to operate a billion-row ledger; only beyond that does it start to be interesting.