[allanbreyes]

There are machines that can fit that and more: https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

I'm not advocating that this is generally a good or bad idea, or even economical, but it's possible.

[the_real_cher]

I'm trying to understand what the person I'm replying to had in mind when they said fit six terabytes in memory and search with awk.

is this what they were referring to just by a big ass Ram machine?