Comment by eternalban

Reducing technology assessment to puns is ultimately not very informative. I recommend you read up on Stonebraker's work the past few years. Durability issues of in-mem DBs are addressed.

It is certainly true that many pure mem vendors out there are playing fast and loose with terminology, but if one were to accept your assertions, then when the day arrives when spinning disks are antiques then I guess we no longer would have databases.