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Re:VoltDB is out, benchmarks against Cassandra by jbellis on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @04:20PM (#1381537)
Most use cases also don't have the entire data set equally active, and it's silly to pay to keep everything in RAM instead of just the hot parts.
Re:VoltDB is out, benchmarks against Cassandra by hdiedrich on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @09:19PM (#1382377)
That's part of the proposal: real world data requirements will soon completely fit into RAM available on a rather standard system.