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Re:Announcing Vitess 12 by annexrichmond on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:18PM (#29007073)
> With vanilla MySQL there are limits to how big a database can get.

It's always been unclear to me what these limits are in practice. Is it a certain combination of the number of rows for table size in GBs?

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Re:Announcing Vitess 12 by skyde on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:22PM (#29007682)
both database size (limited by how much memory can fit on one server) or throughout (limited by how much IOPS one server can do)
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Re:Announcing Vitess 12 by skyde on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:24PM (#29007700)
database like amazon aurora db solve the read IOPS and size limit nicely but fail to scale the Write IOPS
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Re:Announcing Vitess 12 by bognition on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:23AM (#29027181)
yes but aurora db is very expensive
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