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Comment by MrFoof

3 years ago

Makes sense. Traditional RDBMSs are basically a buffer cache and a query optimization engine.

If the data is sitting in memory, and you've tuned extracting the data from memory as fast as possible, job done.

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winrid  3 years ago

Not just a RDBMSs. Any modern DB, document store, or kv store will use a buffer cache.

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