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Re:The problem with conventional databases by paul on Monday April 23, 2007 @04:13PM (#16103)
No, it can write continually, but in a sequential fashion.
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Re:The problem with conventional databases by jmarinez on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @01:40AM (#16223)
I wonder what would happen if you use ZFS on top of a flash memory drive and replace/add a SQL layer next to the ZPL layer. In theory, you'd get transactions and checksums for free and possibly your sequential writes as well.
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Re:The problem with conventional databases by Readmore on Monday April 23, 2007 @04:17PM (#16108)
I just read up on memcached, now I get it. Very nice ;)
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