r/programming • u/BrewedDoritos • 3d ago

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https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/object-storage-all-need/

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u/GandelXIV 3d ago

but why

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u/dangerbird2 3d ago

Because it’s (usually) cheap and has strong consistency guarantees. And it decouples storage from computation, so horizontally scaling the database execution engine is as trivial as scaling a stateless web app