Comment by da_chicken
Comment by da_chicken 3 hours ago
I disagree. I think the only people that have read-heavy needs are big data and data warehouses. AI being hot right now doesn't mean big data is the only game in town.
Most applications are used operationally or have a mix of read and write. Even on applications where the user can only consume content present there, there is often more than enough data capture just tracking page history to be relatively write heavy.
Hmmm. Not really. Yes, everything is a mix, but for applications, it very much is on the read-heavy side. Think about how many queries you have to do just to display an arbitrary page. You might, maybe, just maybe, net 2-3 writes vs. hundreds of reads. If that starts to balance out, or even flip, then you probably need to rethink your database as you start to exit traditional db usage patterns. But <30% writes is not write-heavy.