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His argument is basically that slower dynamic languages like Ruby are popular because databases are slow, and databases are slow because disks are slow. But databases are not slow because of disk speeds. Disk access is pretty fast compared to network speeds. Databases are slow because of the join algorithms they use, because of the way data are structured, etc.


In a modern datacenter, network is significantly faster than disk. See Jeff Dean's numbers everyone should know. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=google+numbers+everyone+shoul...

Databases are slow for many reasons. The most common is that your dataset doesn't fit into memory.




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