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> I'm not sure I would want to try analyzing a 267 GB database on most modern machine.

Why? Modern servers come with more RAM than that. Even multi-terabyte datasets are not a problem. Today's hardware is way better than most think.

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Could not agree more. Production data needs to be bigger than a petabyte or three before my default response is anything other than 'let's load it into RAM.' :-)

You mean terabyte, right?

Well shucks, this is why I try not to HN at 3am on the regular... Yes, terabyte, not petabyte. And I'm well past the edit interval at this point; how embarrassing, mea culpa :-)

I meant in the context of people playing at home who might be working off a laptop or a desktop with only 16-32 GB of ram, not someone with half a terabyte of RAM on a multi-socket server.

That's still fine, it will take longer but will still run without problems. A good SSD is recommended though.

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