Preferentially retaining memory pages using a volatile database table attribute

A method for managing a computerized database, comprising the following executed by at least one computer system:

• storing at least one respective database table volatility attribute for each of at least one database table of said computerized database, each database table volatility attribute expressing volatility of at least a portion of a respective database table of said computerized database, said volatility of at least a portion of a respective database table being a property of the respective database table that is a function of changes to data recorded in said at least a portion of the respective database table with respect to time;
• determining circumstances under which a page of data temporarily stored in memory of said at least one computer system and containing data of a first database table of said computerized database is paged out of said memory using the at least one database table volatility attribute corresponding to the first database table.