[¡Databases! 2022] Umbra: A Disk-Based System with In-Memory Performance (Thomas Neumann)

Speaker:

Thomas Neumann

System:

Umbra

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YouTube

The increases in main-memory sizes over the last decade have made pure in-memory database systems feasible, and in-memory systems offer unprecedented performance. However, DRAM is still relatively expensive, and the growth of main-memory sizes has slowed down. In contrast, the prices for SSDs have fallen substantially in the last years, and their read bandwidth has increased to gigabytes per second.... Read More