• Droechai
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    55 months ago

    You save quite a lot of time when working on a database if it’s stored in RAM compared to tape, so it does make sense to use that technology

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          My use case is primarily real time data capture - raw log is written to disk and can be recovered from, although at that point we’d have fallen back on the secondary as primary would now be suspect.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          At which point you have to slurp down a few hundred terabytes from the other datacenters when the power turns back on.

          This is why Google datacenter managers hesitate to turn off the power even when an employee is in the process of getting electrocuted.

            • @[email protected]
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              35 months ago

              Sadly I cannot, since the source is an ex-Googler I know in person who was there personally. While I fully believe the story, I’m just some rando on the Internet, so you’re welcome to take it with the appropriate pile of salt.

              • @[email protected]
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                15 months ago

                Thank you for the honesty, I do believe you fwiw, it’s in line with general business practices

        • Mose13
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          95 months ago

          Then you lose your database quickly, so it’s still fast

          • Phunter
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            25 months ago

            Your delete is O(1)? Ha! Our delete operation runs in O(0).