RonDB has now grown up to the same level of memory management as you find in expensive commercial DBMSs like Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.
Today I made the last development steps in this large project. This project started with a prototype effort by Jonas Oreland already in 2013 after being discussed for a long time before that. After he left for Google the project was taken over by Mauritz Sundell that implemented the first steps for operational records in the transaction manager.
Last year I added the rest of the operational records in NDB. Today I completed the programming of the final step in RonDB. This last step meant moving around 30 more internal data structures towards using the global memory manager. These memory structures are used to represent meta data about tables, fragments, fragment replicas, triggers and global replication objects.
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