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by bpicolo 1535 days ago
50k-100k reads per second was pretty doable on mysql even back in 2014-2015 era.

You can get a 60TB NVMe instance with 96 cores these days - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i3en/. Relational databases just scream on the dang things.

> 2 million random IOPS at 4 KB block sizes and up to 16 GB/s of sequential disk throughput