Storage

• Databases persist data and retrieve data.
• Most databases do persist data to disk.

There are two types of memory:

Disk & Memory

Disk

• Persists to the hard drive. Even if the database crashes, if it boots up again, data is saved.

Memory

• Does not persist data. If the server crashes, the data disappears.

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