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jeffbeetoday at 4:40 PM1 replyview on HN

The fact that you can just pay to scale out point reads is not news to anyone.


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AdamProuttoday at 5:11 PM

yeah, this is a definitely a "best case" workload for a sharded database. Single row reads on the key used to shard with no hotspots (no shard to shard network traffic at all).