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by meowtimemania 980 days ago
What do you mean "can't afford to just use postgres"? I thought postgres cost per query in many cases is cheaper than competitors.
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> What do you mean "can't afford to just use postgres"?

if I have 10TB of hot data, can I afford two machines with 10T of RAM each? how about 100T?

> I thought postgres cost per query in many cases is cheaper than competitors.

that's not really a useful metric without size/latency/etc attached to it, being cheap for 0.1qps might be fine for a YC company but that's no good for my successful company etc

Makes sense. Thanks for the response!