Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Seems to me Google doesn't need a "database" at all... they just need a 
> reasonably reliably large-scale storage system that supports very fast 
> indexing.

Well, except for two things:

1) That *is* what a database is.

2) Google's job isn't to give you search results. Google's job is to 
populate web pages with advertisements.

>> Clearly, this isn't appropriate for (say) a bank's ATM network. But 
>> there are lots of applications where nothing bad happens if there's 
>> temporary inconsistency.
> 
> ....which is why there's all those different isolation levels and stuff.

But that's what the "I" is about.

> My understanding is that current mainstream CPUs are some weird 
> RISC/CISC hybrid that's so complicated that it's difficult to know 
> *what* to call it! o_O

I'm pretty sure the ARM machines are a lot simpler. Desktop CPUs, yeah. 
But ARMs outnumber desktop machines several to one, IIUC.

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