June 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. Sometimes, a large number of relatively small cores and a reasonably beefy chunk of RAM can radically outperform clusters with hundreds or thousands of server nodes running
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