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Re:Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analy... by Simon_O_Rourke on Saturday March 08, 2025 @08:25AM (#43300071)
> it was basically untouchable because it was so slow.

I've worked with a 5B row table on Snowflake with (maybe) no indexes, and while somewhat slow you could still run reasonable queries on it in a minute or two.

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Re:Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analy... by bhouston on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:57AM (#43300748)
I guess I liked the convenience with Bigquery of being able to do significant queries in a second or two on large data sets. It means I can do the query live for the user as they navigate the analytics dashboard and this simplifies design and implementation complexity significantly.
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