Frenkiel: Moving data from disk to memory yields a 50x speedup
Eric (MemSQL) · Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 23:55
Eric Frenkiel, co-founder of MemSQL, discusses the performance differential between disk-based and in-memory storage.
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“Just putting data from disk into memory, you'll see, you know, on the order of a 50 x improvement.”
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