Well, my guess is that updates and inserts are much more frequent than searches in their use case. You're assuming a balanced frequency for these operations and it hardly ever happens.

This is a read-heavy workload per the OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36071799

It was neither read-heavy nor write-heavy.

Ah, thanks for the correction; I’m guessing I read your comment too literally.

Would strikethrough my prior comment if it weren’t past the edit window…