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Hardware+Compressed Columnar Indexing

Oracle has some new compute hardware (The M7) that they want to show off. Key features of interest to us include the ability to push relational database operations down into hardware (e.g., filtering in RAM), and a huge compressed in-memory columnar cache. It would be interesting to see how Mimir can exploit these features to run faster.