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Ask HN: How big is your database?

Mine is ~5gb in postgres. I thought this was quite high, and looked into advanced methods to try to lower it, but I realised 5gb is a teeny tiny baby, so it had me wondering. How big is your database, what's the BIGGEST you've worked with?
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Re:Ask HN: How big is your database? by leros on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:28AM (#31134560)
Yeah 5GB is tiny. You could keep your whole database in RAM for fast queries.

I've worked on a system that generates a few hundred GB of data per day that goes into sharded MySQL databases.

Personally, my side business database is a trivial size of less than 1GB. Although I do produce event logs that go into Timescale which is Postgres. That Timescale database is getting up to 100GB but I don't have to manage that myself.

Re:Ask HN: How big is your database? by cordaciu on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:58AM (#31132330)
125 GB Rds in AWS...and growing
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Re:Ask HN: How big is your database? by ranguna on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:13AM (#31132121)
> with a woman you were sleeping

What?