> nobody would bat an eye at 1 million rows in a database table They often would if they tried to access them like they usually do a filesystem, but for some r

> nobody would bat an eye at 1 million rows in a database table They often would if they tried to access them like they usually do a filesystem, but for some reason people know a full table scan and N+1 queries are bad, but don't bat an eye at readdir and stat each entry in a directory (or worse, scandir+sort+stat).