How does the application described in the parent help with any of that? It doesn't allow other processes to access the data from what I can read, it doesn't allow distributed unified access to anything?
> "If I wanted to do something in-memory, I'd just use data structures in my process"
I think most of the repliers are posting response to the blanket statement you made on _all_ classes of in-memory databases (think memcached, redis, voltdb, HANA etc)