Re: Relational Model and Search Engines?

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:49:41 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.03.20.49.41.93073@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Mon, 03 May 2004 20:42:33 +0000, Alfredo Novoa escreveu:

>>	My understanding is that they in fact were a big, ugly cache.

>
> Main memory DMBS only means that the data reside in memory and not in
> disks. It is possible to make ugly and beauty MMDBMSs.

So how does it differ from a big cache or a solid-state disk system?

More specifically, how is it that it can have data in memory and still COMMIT?

Even more specifically, is it possible to do it decently with a relational language or SQL?

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