RAM Storage

ActiveSpaces data can be stored purely in RAM on machines running seeder processes. RAM is the fastest storage medium and provides the fastest reads and writes; however, it is the most ephemeral storage medium.

If the seeder process (or the machine running the process) goes down, the data held in the process' memory is lost. Although the ActiveSpaces mechanism enables recovery from individual process or machine failures, if all of the seeder processes of a space go down (because they all crash, or because the machine is in maintenance), then the data disappears from the space along with the last seeder.

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