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What you’re describing isn’t an inherent problem with a key value store. Forcing everything to OLTP SQL is also short term thinking. Pick the right tool for the job.

It’s funny you mention growth as the limiting factor for key value stores, if anything that’s the one area where they’re objectively superior. Which is why most search databases and caches are key value stores.




Not if you use a rdbms to store your key/values. Then you can do arbitrary queries with joins over multiple tables, add views, stored procedures, etc.


Sure, but that’s not related to what you said prior. Again, right tool for the job.


Sure. I meant grow in number of ways you use your data, not in volume of data.


What you meant was understood and my point stands




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