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Re:How Discord stores trillions of messages by hinkley on Sunday September 29, 2024 @01:34AM (#41685167)
It annoys me sometimes how effective B-trees are.

Every decade has some cool breakthrough in compression, and a handful of other disciplines. But OLTP databases are still basically better B-trees.

Re:How Discord stores trillions of messages by menaerus on Sunday September 29, 2024 @02:57AM (#41685417)
LSM trees? ScyllaDB is LSM-based storage engine. RocksDB as well.