Does ScaleOut StateServer require the use of a DBMS?
No, ScaleOut StateServer runs completely in memory on all of the servers in the farm. The memory-based object store is automatically distributed across all active servers and is dynamically balanced across the farm as servers are added or removed. ScaleOut StateServer’s distributed data store eliminates the bottleneck created by a centralized DBMS and provides much faster response time by avoiding disk access and DBMS overhead. It also speeds up access by allowing simultaneous access to multiple data objects stored on different servers and performance scales as the farm grows.
