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If you had to do it again, what would you choose instead?



These days? Redshift or B̶i̶g̶Q̶u̶e̶r̶y̶ BigTable (thanks for correcting my think-o!). Back then? Maybe HBase.


Do you mean BigTable? That's Google's "HBase" in sofar as hbase is based on the BT paper.

From what I recall from using it a few years ago, it's pretty damn fast, very low latency. HBase had speedy p50s as well but tended to get quite slow at p99 due to GC.




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