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		corresation on Dec 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection petabyte datasets are downright cheap to deal with these days Are you from the future? In no universe is a petabyte database remotely close to being cheap, even for large organizations. At this point I am seriously questioning your industry knowledge.

empthought on Dec 29, 2013 [–]

Sure it is, a few thousand entries pointing to 10-100GB pirated HD video blobs. What's the problem?

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