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It's a very very cool idea, but I'm still not clear on the main benefits. Bottomless storage: yes, but couldn't you theoretically achieve this with plenty of c
by Reubend 2y ago
It's a very very cool idea, but I'm still not clear on the main benefits.
Bottomless storage: yes, but couldn't you theoretically achieve this with plenty of cloud DB services? Amazon Aurora goes up to 128 TB, and once your DB gets to that size, it's likely that you can hire some dedicated engineers to handle more complicated setups.
High durability: yes, but couldn't this be achieves with a "normal" DB that has a read replica using object storage, rather than the entire DB using object storage?
Easy replication: arguably not easier than normal replication, depending on which cloud DB you're considering as an alternative.
- roh26it 2y agoAlso wondering if this would become expensive very fast if it ends up using S3 with a large number of PUT calls
- dangoodmanUT 2y agotune the write flush interval down, it'd be very cheap
- dangoodmanUT 2y agoif the benefits are not obvious to you, then you're not the target user, or you don't understand what kind of person needs this there's a class of folks who desperately need this. It's the KV equivalent to turbopuffer