Part 01 · How a Database Thinks

Memory Hierarchy and Latency Numbers

CPU cacheRAMSSDHDDNetwork

CPU cache, RAM, SSD, HDD and the network differ by orders of magnitude. The latency numbers every database design decision is built on.

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