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Things like mobile/webisite analytics events. User A clicked this menu item, User B viewed this images etc All streamed into S3 in chunks of smallish files. It
by rgallagher27 5y ago
Things like mobile/webisite analytics events. User A clicked this menu item, User B viewed this images etc All streamed into S3 in chunks of smallish files.
It's cheaper to store them in S3 over a DB and use tools like Athena or Redshift spectrum to query.
- wackget 5y agoWow. What makes it cheaper than using a DB? Is it just because the DB will create some additional metadata about each stored row or something?
- bpicolo 5y agoS3 is often essentially a database in these scenarios. You store columnar data format files in S3, and various analytical systems can query with S3 as a massive backing storage.