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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by zzzcpan on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:05PM (#13908660)
"where most database loads in the world can be handled on a single machine"

I don't think it works like that. There is always some point when at certain number of users avoiding downtime becomes more important, than handling a load and hardware performance stops matter as much.

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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by Shivetya on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:47PM (#13908877)
high availability systems can counter this and if properly implemented you could share certain workloads with both the primary and HA systems; basically anything which doesn't change data.

the its memory and storage would be a boon to dynamic indexing and common table expressions.

maybe this new technology will bring single level storage as IBM has employed on some machines to the public. Where all storage is treated as one resource and only the machine knows the difference.

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