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Re:The DynamoDB Paper by eatonphil on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:51AM (#32095408)
> No abstraction layer will allow you to run queries ad-hoc in a performant way.

Depends on the size of the data. Run analytics queries (i.e. things that return summary data not all rows) on 10GB of data through clickhouse or duckdb or datafusion and they'll generally return in milliseconds.

Re:The DynamoDB Paper by nightpool on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:05AM (#32096932)
What does this have to do with DynamoDB? The point is that once you've gotten your data into DynamoDB, you're strongly limited in how you can use it until you load it into something else.
Re:The DynamoDB Paper by eatonphil on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:06AM (#32096954)
I didn't see an obvious connection between the two sentences.