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> what happens if you let the conventional software use a similarly enlarged RAM budget or fast storage?

Oh I absolutely have gone down this road as well.

The biggest thing for me is taking advantage of the other benefits you can get with in-memory working sets, such as arbitrary pointer machine representations.

When working with a traditional SQL engine (even one tuned for memory-only operation), there are many rules you have to play by or things will not go well.



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