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by racuna 2606 days ago
On Exadata architecture (and the recent versions of Oracle Database) the search is made by the hardware, not the software.

I'm not a fan of Oracle, but things like that are awesome.
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vetinari 2606 days ago
Really? What I vaguely remember that the storage nodes were embedded linux boxes. Yes, they understood indices and would return only minimum needed, but it was still software.
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