In which system is SSD disk better over HDD as far as performance is concerned ? An OLTP or an OLAP system ?
My guess is that in OLTP an SSD disk is more valuable, because transactions are constantly occurring and we need the non-sequential read-write speeds. Is this correct ?
I'm not experienced with the two systems, but from what I know I would say that an SSD would be most beneficent for a OLTP system. Since OLAP is focused more upon complex queries involving aggregation, I'd be inclined to think that read-write times would not be the limiting factor for an OLAP system. That's my two-cents.
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