Are indexes stored on disk?

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Are database indexes only stored in memory, or are they also stored on disk (presumably using Badger if they are)?

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The second. Also, basically 99% of the DBs out there, except Redis, stores indexes on disk. It was always expensive to use RAM as storage of something. And expand a 20GB dataset with its indexes by default would require a lot of RAM.

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Thanks. I figured as much.

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