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This assumes that using a distributed database from the start doesn't offer it's own penalties/drawbacks (particularly in 2016).

Particularly considering as per the figma note, they consider their data highly relational (i.e. presumably this means lots of joins in queries)

What database would you have chosen?



That's a fair response for then, but not today where you're spoiled for choice. Spanner was released as a service in 2017, which isn't far off.


Well Spanner has it's own disadvantages, like having your entire stack tightly coupled to a google cloud product (i.e. you have to sacrifice being cloud agnostic).


Spanner is quite expensive though.




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