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You're right. My math was off. I read it as 24 GB RAM, instead of 12 GB RAM. I was actually checking out Mediatemple's nitro server. Low on the memory and spee

• e1ven 18y ago
  I still think it's amazing that we live in a world where we can store 25,769,803,776 bytes on a computer that we entrepreneurs can afford! It's causes a huge change in the way people look at Databases- In the past, you needed huge database servers so that you could keep everything stored on disk, and intelligently cached.. Today, I'd imagine that 99% of companies data can be kept entirely in memory. Stunning, really. It entirely changes how you think about data storage.
  • njharman 18y ago
    > It entirely changes how you think about data storage. It should entirely change how you think about data storage. What's stunning to me is the number of people who are stuck on "Fully ACID, fully RDMS or it's crap and you will fail and deservedly so."
    • ibsulon 18y ago
      It all depends on what your goal is. In health care applications? In financial applications? I would never trust anything less than fully acid with all the bells and whistles. In a website where people aren't going to be that bothered of a few transactions are inconsistent if some major snafu happens? (status updates get lost in the ether, for example.) The cost isn't worth the benefit of high power. RDMS is a similar tradeoff.
      • maxniederhofer 18y ago
        wait for widely available SSD storage to truly change databases
        • ibsulon 18y ago
          I was actually talking about developer rather than machine overhead.