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They're used by people running massive systems that want all of their data to be accessible at incredibly high speeds.

We're talking about systems designed for throughput. For processing huge amounts of data in overnight batch processes. For five nines uptime. And for still being compatible with the code you wrote 30 years ago that still manages millions of customers.

parent AndrewDucker 17 years ago

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