Re: Relational Model and Search Engines?

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 19:43:00 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.03.22.43.00.128555@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Just realised it's become offtopic... sorry...

Em Mon, 03 May 2004 22:23:56 +0000, Nick Landsberg escreveu:

> In-memory access does not have to go across any bus to any
> device. When you are dealing with 8,000 TPS this does have an
> effect.

So does caching.

> Commits are done to the disk, as usual (to the journal
> file). Depending on the application, these may be either synchronous
> (right now), or deferred until the next millisecond or the next 10
> commits or something like that. If you can live with losing the
> last 10 transactions in case of a crash, you can live with an
> in-memory database. (It's a tradeoff.)

So, it is basically for throwaway data. I was hoping for something more interesting.

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