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WHAT DOES A DATABASE FOR SSDS LOOK LIKE?

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Most relational databases were invented in the 90s and 00s, the era of spinning disks. Design decisions were made when I/O was slow and sequential I/O was orders of magnitude faster than random. This post looks at what would change and what would remain if we had to begin from scratch to build a new database in 2025.