> At around a billion records, you start getting into distributed/scale-out systems Yeahhh.... no. I remember running a 250-300,000,000 row postgres table of W

> At around a billion records, you start getting into distributed/scale-out systems Yeahhh.... no. I remember running a 250-300,000,000 row postgres table of Wikipedia links on my 2010 Dell XPS and it functioning fine, if not a bit slow (it had a huge index on an array column). Good machine, but ancient now.