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From the first paragraph:

> One of the main problems a database storage engine has to solve is how to deal with data in disk that is bigger than the available memory.




I misread the comment. The file fits in address space? As sibling comment suggests, address space is v. big and it's very much a corner case (or very specific use case) for most people.




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