Let’s try and understand why we should care more about this in
the first place. This requires a little bit of historical
explanation. We all know Moore’s Law. It says the number of
transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every
two years. The prediction has been working pretty well since
late ‘70. Couple of things started changing from the middle of
last decade (around 2005). - Moore’s law started failing, since
hardware makers found a limitation in hardware capability for
increasing the clock speed, and, - Secondly there has been an
exponential growth of data from around that time. First part
will help us understand our current topic of discussion and the
second point will lead to another interesting discussion, about
the rising trajectory of NoSQL landscape and what was the
problem with traditional RDBMS ? Will discuss the second part
later. …Unable to increase the clock speed, companies like Intel
started adding multi core processors in the same machine. And we
got Dual Core, Quad Code … ma