Balancing the RUM Conjecture: Navigating Database Trade-Offs

When designing databases, there&rsquo;s a constant balancing act among three main factors:&#xA;Read times Update cost Memory/storage overhead The RUM Conjecture suggests that optimizing any two of these factors will negatively impact the third. Essentially, you can only choose two out of the three to prioritize in any design.&#xA;Example: Log-Structured Databases Consider a log-structured…