> Why would you cache the entire database though?
I have no ideas where did you got that from.
> specially as provisioning the same memory capacity as RAM is orders of magnitude more expensive than storing the equivalent data in a database.
I'm not sure how else to interpret this
Why are you confusing memory capacity as a requirement to store the whole database in memory? I mean, think. What do you think is the biggest performance bottleneck with caches, and how does this relate to memory capacity?
> specially as provisioning the same memory capacity as RAM is orders of magnitude more expensive than storing the equivalent data in a database.
I'm not sure how else to interpret this
Why are you confusing memory capacity as a requirement to store the whole database in memory? I mean, think. What do you think is the biggest performance bottleneck with caches, and how does this relate to memory capacity?