RE: ANTs Data Server?

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:23:56 -0700
Message-ID: <OF4C8A45E0.37EACD22-ON88256F02.005F6D99-88256F02.005F95D4@radisys.com>

> I just don't get the whole "cache everything, and everything will be ok"
> argument. The vast majority of the slow tasks I've seen in the past ten
> years have all executed "in cache" to begin with!
>
> ...And fixing them has, almost every time, required either optimization
=
> of
> SQL, or optimization of the application code that calls the SQL. I just
> don't see how /any/ database can defend itself against all the types of
> abuse that an application developer can throw at it.
>

Here's my take on the thought process behind this.

Problem: Oracle/DB2/SQL Server is too slow. It spends too much time reading data from disk.

Solution: Cache all the data. It's well known that memory access is ~14,000 times faster than disk access. We'll clean up!

;)

Jared

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