Requirement
A prevalent system needs enough memory to hold its entire state in RAM (the "prevalent hypothesis"). Prevalence advocates claim this is continuously alleviated by decreasing RAM prices, and the fact that many business databases are small enough already to fit in memory.
Programmers need skill in working with business state natively in RAM, rather than using explicit API calls for storage and queries for retrieval.
The system's events must be capturable for journaling.
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