Re: What O/S or hardware feature would be useful for databases?

On 06/18/07 08:05, Merlin Moncure wrote:
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> That being said, it's pretty clear to me we are in the last days of
> the disk drive.

Oh, puhleeze. Seagate, Hitachi, Fuji and WD aren't sitting around
with their thumbs up their arses. In 3-4 years, large companies
and spooky TLAs will be stuffing SANs with hundreds of 2TB drives.

My (young) kids will be out of college before the density/dollar of
RAM gets anywhere near that of disks. If it ever does.

What we are in, though, is the last decade of tape.

> When solid state drives become prevalent in server
> environments, database development will enter a new era...physical
> considerations will play less and less a role in how systems are
> engineered.

"Oh, puhleeze" redux.

There will always be physical considerations. Why?

Even if static RAM drives *do* overtake spindles, you'll still need
to engineer them properly. Why?

1) There's always a bottleneck.

2) There's always more data to "find" the bottleneck.

> So, to answer the OP, my answer would be to 'get rid of
> the spinning disk!' :-)

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