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The Overlooked Operating System

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Is the Operating System a Strong Intermediary?

A lot of databases use kind of standard APIs to write files. It's the same API that a text editor may use. The operating system is being a strong intermediary here. And for databases, things that care about high performance IO, they increasingly have been using differentIO paths.

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