[sidcool]

KV stores are a complex topic and research continues. Each new tool comes with its own set of trade offs. It would help to go through the documentation.

[jstummbillig]

> Each new tool comes with its own set of trade offs

Is the cognitive load this produces still worth the consideration? At what level do you have to operate for the gains to actually make viable business sense to even consider?

Sometimes I am thinking "Well, surely at Google level" – and then I load up one of their interfaces, for example Google Ads, and I have to sit around for 10s before anything even shows up.

[sidcool]

There are so many startups in the KV DB space that it's absolutely worth it. Now if one is a consultancy, they can very well used any available key value stores. But beyond a certain scale, it's very useful to try and customize a KV store. That's where it becomes useful.

[prox]

Or not at all like last week. Screens would take forever! It was better the next day luckily.

[ramraj07]

You could do a million other interesting things academically or commercially before diving into yet another KV store though.

[robertlagrant]

Hard to know what the point is of this line of reasoning. Someone or some company thought it was interesting, so they made it.