te of writes that relational databases achieve.</li>
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		Many of the performance related parameters that are set globally in a relational database are set on a “per query” basis in Cyc. That is, each query that is sent to the Cyc system includes a list of parameters and values that gate things like how long the query can run before it times out, which portion of the knowledge base it can access in its search, the maximum number of answers it can return, and a whole suite of other such parameters that