Re: Anyone for SSDs?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Loureiro <loureirorg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vaibhav Kaushal <vaibhavkaushal123(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anyone for SSDs?
Date: 2010-12-10 23:14:18
Message-ID: AANLkTinpYcyz+E4N=br3946jbLRpV1bFmJO4eBi7CqkS@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Heck, even RAM isn't 1.0.  I'm also involved with the Redis project,
> which is an in-memory database.  Even for a pure-RAM database, it turns
> out that just using linked lists and 100% random access is slower than
> accessing page images.

That's a slightly different problem, though. Sequential vs. random
access is about whether fetching pages n, n+1, n+2, ... is faster than
skipping around, not whether accessing fewer pages is faster than
more.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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