Japanese fruit is big business. You may recall the square watermelon — it won't roll around in the fridge — and can cost close to $100.
A new premium fruit has made its debut in Japan: the Ruby Roman grape. Each tomato-colored grape is a little smaller than a pingpong ball — and costs about $26.
rubyThe Ruby Roman: Japan's Colossal New GrapeNPR Programs: Morning Edition Tue, 08/12/2008 - 8:50am
H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?ZDNET - Between the Lines Wed, 02/20/2008 - 2:28pm
Via a project called H-Store, Mike Stonebraker proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in RAM, with no disks, no redo logs, little multi-threading, and only optimistic locking. |
