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Re:Web search 30M rows sub-second, cheaply by joshu on Sunday November 22, 2015 @03:09PM (#10611282)
This is one of those "computer science matters" things.

Learn your data structures. Learn what the storage engines use. Use the right structure for the right problem.

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Re:Web search 30M rows sub-second, cheaply by jgord on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:55PM (#10612069)
..your right.

The spirit of my hack was really just that - to apply the well known data structures and algos to solve a problem.

Its unusual to want fast, large and cheap all together - if you really want to squeeze things you might look at how modern SSD performance can be exploited - my hack is just one instance of that.

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