Why use slow hard drives when todays computers have plenty of blazing fast RAM available?
While in operation, Panorama doesn’t use the disk at all except for archival storage. That’s right — Panorama loads entire databases into RAM, where all sorting, searching, data analysis and manipulation take place. It helps that Panorama files are extremely small, typically 1/5th to 1/10th the size of of the same data in a traditional B-Tree indexed database. In fact, Panorama can easily fit well over a million records into 100 megabytes of RAM. (Panorama files are small because they contain nothing but data — no padding, no indexes.) Allthough your data is manipulated in RAM for speed, for safety’s sake Panorama can automatically save your changes to disk as often as you like. Or you can manually save even the largest database in a fraction of a second with a single keystroke. Because it has no complex B-Tree index structure to maintain, Panorama can often save an entire database in less time than it takes for competing products to save a single record. Our customers have been using
