RDS with 256,000 IOPS (the max) on a single primary instance of MariaDB.
Of course its not realistic to run a primary DB on a laptop, but the IOPS are extremely expensive in AWS was the point.
Offloading expensive queries to a browser is a viable solution. If I had decided to make this some sort of SaaS offering I am certain running full text search at scale would cost thousands of dollars per month long term, with the data becoming increasingly irrelevant over time, and I would still be forced to host it.
Of course its not realistic to run a primary DB on a laptop, but the IOPS are extremely expensive in AWS was the point.
Offloading expensive queries to a browser is a viable solution. If I had decided to make this some sort of SaaS offering I am certain running full text search at scale would cost thousands of dollars per month long term, with the data becoming increasingly irrelevant over time, and I would still be forced to host it.