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"On what hardware platform does Oracle runs the best?"

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"Extaclty right, on a 35mm projector..."

hahaha

Fun Fact: Stonebraker used to party with Michael Jackson in the early 1980s when Thriller came out:

Fun fact, it's Pete Carter as Michael Jackson https://youtu.be/LCXWF-OEIkc?t=639

He got me there for a moment. Pete Carter also says that Stonebraker wrote lyrics for "Beat It".

Whoever it is, it's not Michael Jackson [1].

Whoosh.

I can highly recommend his video "Everything you learned in your DBMS class is wrong" http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker

It opened my eyes to why traditional block-based RDBMS's were definitely going to go away and replaced by in-memory engines.