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Re:Feature Casualties of Large Databases by knz42 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:15AM (#25275071)
This article reads odd to me. It seems to me that serious players do not compromise on these things at all.

For example, CockroachDB (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/) aims to support extremely large databases in a distributed fashion, and does not compromise on any of the points the author raises.

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Re:Feature Casualties of Large Databases by Uberphallus on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:21AM (#25275397)
Deletes leave tombstones and performance plummets pretty much like in Cassandra. If your app doesn't do many deletes (<2-3% of operations in my experience) it can work fine. You can lower gc_ttl but that will limit having consistent/complete backups.
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