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unclebobmartin 2y ago

Imagine that you had an unbounded amount of persistent RAM. How would you access the data within it? SQL?

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w3ird_ 2y ago

SQL is never the answer

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graycat 2y ago

It sometimes is! Not in this case. Modern languages (e.g. Clojure) have good facilities for mapping, filtering, and reducing data in memory.

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graycat 2y ago

Well, not so much for relational data. There ought to be a programming language with first-class support for relations.

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graycat 2y ago

A Turing-complete language, I mean. Not SQL.

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bc1984adam 2y ago

Redis?

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tony 🤙🏼⚡️ 2y ago

Oracle TimesTen or SAP HANA or some type of DBMS that supports in-memory databases or caching mechanisms

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superkruger 2y ago

Graph-like structure using pointer hops