I had in mind the extra tables that an application sometimes needs to operate faster. Denormalisations, pre-joined tables, pre-calculated results, aggregated data. These are not temporary tables, just part of the application - multi-user tables that stay across shutdown/restart.
You could also add caching search results for easy pagination without redoing always entirely on each page the Big Slow Search Query that every website has...
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