[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Apr 18 19:56:07 EDT 2012


On 2012-04-19 00:50, JF Mezei wrote:
> In the case of a DBMS, doesn't that add an extra layer of potential
> caching since DBMS typically try to keep as much of the database in memory ?
>
> And you have to add the network layer where the application has sent its
> commands to the SQL server and the application has no way of knowing
> when the data will actually be written to disk.

Yes. :-)

	Johnny

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