Database Indexing
Comments discuss the trade-offs of using database indexes, including performance benefits for reads versus costs for writes, storage, memory, and maintenance.
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If only we could add some indexes ...
I notice you didn't mention indexes...
Indexing is on but my understanding is that it only help reading, not writing on the DB
Love the idea ! But how ? It seems to be a costly indexing.
So... throw money on compute instead of just adding an index..?
Better a write with an index than a read without an index, my grannie always said.
because there is nothing creating bazillions of indexes in real time.
There are indexed attributes, isn't it a hope?
They mention that it's super fast without index. Is there a win with index ?
Maintaining an index is a cost of the lookup efficiencies gained.