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by fragmede 1415 days ago
Given perfect knowledge of access patterns, I bet you could. Especially since it's basically all reading and not writing. Horizontally scaled with many, many read-only replicas. But then there are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. All the big companies running huge Oracle db installations are busy running their workloads, which probably don't look like Amazon Prime day traffic.

It's also impossible to have perfect knowledge of access patterns.