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"Reevaluating In-Memory Data Stores and Non-Relational Databases for Efficient File Handling and Querying"

Jan 5, 2024 - 8:52amSummary: The speaker is questioning the effectiveness of in-memory data stores such as Redis for handling files and mentions the importance of being able to perform map-reduce operations. They also consider the usefulness of non-relational databases for querying and searching. They contemplate building applications on microservices and emphasize the storage system's simplicity and efficiency in performing a pipeline of operations.

Transcript: There's also another thing, since this is all files, it does also make me wonder what good, like, in-memory stores there are, like maybe Redis or something is really good for something like this. I'm not really looking for key value, though key value would be also helpful, but being able to basically map reduce the list, just like a giant map-reduce operation all the time. And it also makes me wonder about, you know, databases that are non-relational in terms of just being able to query and search them. These are like some things that may be useful to, like, build applications on, things like that. And again, basically just like saying fuck it, and maybe all those are like microservices for the data that's on the file system. And keeping the storage part very much, very plain that, like, all it does is this pipeline of operations. If you want to add, you go to that, like, module to go fuck with it. That's all it does, and it does it really well. That's maybe one thing, too.

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