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by inigyou 7 days ago
It's big but it's not so big it wouldn't fit on SSD on one particularly beefy server (two for redundancy). Sharding this would be more about the transaction rate. Actually, sharding would always be about the transaction rate.
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It doesn’t even remotely need to fit on one SSD with logical volume management (or RAID).