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		yunohn on April 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Saving cloud costs by writing our own database This is more a bespoke file format than a full blown database. It’s optimized for one table schema and a few specific queries. Not a negative though, not everything needs a general purpose database. Clearly this satisfies their requirements, which is the most important thing.

Kalanos on April 6, 2024 [–]

Exactly. There are a hundred questions that come to mind like how does it handle concurrent writes, sharding, views.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database#Database_management_s...

I'm sure they learned a lot, but probably a waste in the long run

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