As I replied in a sub-thread, I think Intel's marketing diagram [1] is probably useful to help separate the Optane flavors. This is about the "near DRAM" variant.
While the blog post highlights running SAP HANA (SAP's in-memory focused database), you can use them for whatever you want. The persistent part is that it's persistent across reboots. The hope is that this might make it easier to have tiered database/caching systems, since the gap between DRAM and this new "memory" is much closer than say DRAM and SSD.
As I replied in a sub-thread, I think Intel's marketing diagram [1] is probably useful to help separate the Optane flavors. This is about the "near DRAM" variant.
While the blog post highlights running SAP HANA (SAP's in-memory focused database), you can use them for whatever you want. The persistent part is that it's persistent across reboots. The hope is that this might make it easier to have tiered database/caching systems, since the gap between DRAM and this new "memory" is much closer than say DRAM and SSD.
[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/...