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Re:Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable by abalone on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:37PM (#18992119)
Worth noting his original reason for moving away from DynamoDB is outdated. DynamoDB added an “adaptive capacity” feature to handle hot partitions.[1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-ad...

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Re:Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable by ses1984 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:03PM (#18994300)
It's still expensive though, right?
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Re:Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable by abalone on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:51PM (#18995142)
Compared to what? You'll have to be more specific.

Definitely adaptive capacity targets the primary reason people had to overprovision DynamoDB. It changes the entire calculation and obsoletes all the advice you might have heard based on experiences prior to late 2017.

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Re:Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable by jonomacd on Friday January 25, 2019 @06:54AM (#18997246)
Yes, I have heard this! Great news they have sorted that out. Might be worth us looking at it again though we are hosted in GCP now so it is less tempting...
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