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		deanCommie on July 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The DynamoDB Paper Lots can change over the years. Your links are from 2016 - it's not conceivable that in the last 6 years, Amazon has changed some of the implementation?

rmbyrro on July 14, 2022 [–]

DynamoDB was already large scale at that time.

The point is: the number of services don't need to scale with the level of demand.

deanCommie on July 15, 2022 | [–]

My comment was about " paper fails to acknowledge a FOSS database (once?) underneath it: MySQL/InnoDB (and references it as B-Tree instead)." should have been more clear

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