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> 64000x($100+256x$4)=$7,193,600 worst case pricing Not sure how you arrived at this calculation. 256x$4 already accounts for 256GB. The database in the OP is

• morphle 2y ago
  You might be right, I did the math too quickly and can't fix the posting. As they say about this 'back of the envelope' type calculations will only you get 'ball park' estimates. The $450 million is also an estimate that could be off by an order of a magnitude. My argument still stands: in-memory databases with SRAM wafers are much faster and cheaper than customers (managers) realize, no need to have database software. In 1997 the IRAM paper was still thinking about 180nm DRAM chips, in 2025 we can do 3nm wafer scale integrations so Moores law gives us affordable Terabyte in-memory databases that cost less than a programmer to write and manage databases. In 1981 Dan Ingalls wrote[1] in Design Principles Behind Smalltalk: "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." IN 2025 I argue that "a database is a collection of tricks to shuffle data between compute and storage memory. There shouldn't be one.". I would go one step further and say a von Neumann architecture or Harvard architecture microprocessor is a collection of gates to compute in separated memory storage. There shouldn't be one. [1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....