> There is nothing stopping Oracle using the same optimization There is. Skill, bureaucracy, grit, and the right motive. The meat here is MemSQL's sophisticat

> There is nothing stopping Oracle using the same optimization There is. Skill, bureaucracy, grit, and the right motive. The meat here is MemSQL's sophisticated indexing with splay trees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree