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I was feeling very impatient and was wondering what to do. Was there an alternative to SSD? While thinking over it and with the word “memsql”, I had an “eureka” moment. I was wondering what if I was able to create a drive in RAM and have the entire MySQL db on it. Now, though it won’t be in-process, it would be completely in-memory and without any code changes it would be faster than any hard disk, hybrid disk, SSD. That was just a hypothesis and to my surprise I found that there are software’s that would convert extra RAM into RAM drive. I also came to know that Linux (any Unix flavor) already has this built-in with its tmpfs. I also came across these two blogs “RAMDisks Roundup and testing”, “RAM Disk Software Benchmarked”. Based on available benchmarks I shortlisted “SoftPerfect RAM Disk”. I was super excited and I wanted to immediately try it on the test VM servers and the build time did came down further!!!. The hypothesis had worked, the build time on the test VM Server came down to 25 minutes.

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