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It was a major outage, taking many Docs offline, but now it's back online.

Totally agree.

IMHO, antitrust fines/penalties should change from amount of money to some other type of penalty, like temporary market exclusion/block or something, otherwise companies like Google and others can simply use its cash (that's was also made due to the unfair advantage), pay the fine and move on to the next market dominance.

They will always have cash to pay, even if the fines are higher and higher. They kind of expect for this in their long term strategic planning.

Agree. I think Pinot (from Linkedin) and Druid would also provide a good solution.

Paying $10 per 1 Million events streamed and $1 for each 100 Million properties scanned, Algolia would be dead.

Backblaze B2 is awesome and the future looks very promising. Their team is also very open to new ideas and projects.

We have few PB of data there and never had any problem.

I honestly don't see any reason for anyone to use AWS or Google Cloud for object storage, except for the outbound network transfer issue from these providers.

Lucene (used by ElasticSearch) uses Bitmaps a lot and it is one of the main reasons for their low storage usage and search/query speed.

At my company we also strongly use Bitmaps on the analytics database engine we developed (S1Search).