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Re:On moving from CouchDB to Riak by seiji on Monday March 07, 2011 @03:48PM (#2298605)
Bitcask is an in memory datastore because it keeps a copy of the entire dataset in memo

Not quite. The keys are in memory along with disk position to retrieve the associated value with one seek.

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