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Re:VoltDB is out, benchmarks against Cassandra by aquark on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @06:54PM (#1382021)
Isn't the D in ACID for 'durable'? The blog post implies that this is an in memory store only ... I feel I must be missing something.
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Re:VoltDB is out, benchmarks against Cassandra by KERMIT on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @07:10PM (#1382077)
"Durability" in that sense has nothing to do with how the data is stored, or how long it's available for.

It simply means that after a transaction has been reported as having been committed successfully, it won't ever be rolled back.

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