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Comment by Jupe

From the article, DynamoDB-likes are good IF:

* You know exactly what your app needs to do, up-front

But isn't this true of any database? Generally, adding a new index to a 50 million row table is a pain in most RDBs. As is adding a column, or in some cases, even deleting an index. These operations usually incur downtime, or some tricky table duplication with migration process that is rather compute + I/O intensive... and risky.

parent Jupe 2 years ago

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