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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by brianwawok on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:00AM (#12153473)
Does row count matter that much compared to data size? I.e. if I have a billion rows but they are 2 32-bit ints, that isn't a lot of data (2 GB + index). I guess the index starts to get pretty big.. but I always just think of raw data size vs # of rows.
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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by rantanplan on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:13AM (#12153499)
Remember, it's just a rule of thumb. Now... tables with 2 32-bit ints as columns are not exactly typical RDBMS data.

Also, data in RDBMS are... well relational :) Meaning, the rows of just one table are not that important. The data are going to be queried and combined with data from other tables. And I know that typical relational data that consist of hundreds of millions of entries in each table is something that most DBs can handle.

Again, rule of thumb :D

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Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation by brianwawok on Sunday July 24, 2016 @04:44PM (#12154805)
Fair enough!
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