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by chutes 321 days ago
this is a neat project. most intriguing to me was that OLAP performance for an OLTP style query was worse.

This really highlights the place for _both_ OLTP and OLAP DBs.

OLTP: when you need to select one

OLAP: when you need to select the world

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Also for metadata queries, OLTP was faster. But these were the difference between the blink of an eye and two blinks of an eye.