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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (59815)	7/12/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Traditional databases use a complex virtual mapping to page data into memory from disk, in a process which is analogous to disk file caching but much more sophisticated. In-memory databases are on the order of 1000 times as fast as disk based systems but are currently limited to sizes which are fairly small by today's standards (a gig or so). There are numerous applications where large data capability like this might open new markets. For example, real-time natural language processing or translation. If a real-time translation has a lag time of 10 minutes, no one will use it, where one which operates with a fraction of a second lag would be quite valuable. That is just an example to highlight the potential value of large IMDB capability.