Living in memory
The database is the workhorse of corporate IT systems and for over 35 years the hard disk has been its stable. But some technologists believe that as a platform for enterprise databases, disk-based storage has had its day.
For one thing, they argue, modern business applications demand response times measured in nanoseconds, but the process of reading and writing data to and from a disk puts the brake on database performance.
What is more, to ensure adequate throughput and to relieve stress on individual disk heads, database administrators must scatter data across volumes of individual disks. According to... read more...
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