One Classy Dame

OK, the title was, likely, used by a couple of hundred bad guys in 20s, 30s, and 40s gansta films. Today's topic is storage class memory, yet again, wafted on the raft of an AnandTech piece, in which ex-Toshiba seeks to denigrate SCM, in favor of its fashion of NAND. Bah. From the point of view of 5NF RDBMS, nothing is better than an SCM datastore. As Codd decreed, all data changes at once; there is no row-by-agonizing-row nonsense out to disk.

The ability to offer both high-density DRAM at order-of-magnitude performance levels or extremely low latency storage in a single product indicates its utility, rather than a lack of optimization for one or the other.

On the whole, the comments make mincemeat of the argument.