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Re:The problem with conventional databases by abstractbill on Monday April 23, 2007 @04:14PM (#16104)
"For sequential access, DRAM is about 62x the speed of disk -- it's slower, but only by a few orders of magnitude."

Shouldn't that be "it's faster"?

Excellent post otherwise, btw.

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Re:The problem with conventional databases by paul on Monday April 23, 2007 @04:16PM (#16105)
Fixed. Thanks
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Re:The problem with conventional databases by Sam_Odio on Monday April 23, 2007 @04:16PM (#16106)
I think he meant the disk, not the DRAM, is slower.
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