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[โ€“] bobaduk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit of a pain to store in Dynamo, though. You'd need to write a bunch of different views, I think.

One comment thread makes sense as a partition, but listing threads is going to be awkward, and search is basically a no-no.

Not necessarily a pain, you just have to model the data very differently in something like DynamoDB. Those views are secondary indexes.

Search, though, you're right. You'd be running ElasticSearch along side it and the cost and complexity starts to go up. Or just abandon having a functional search entirely, like Reddit did...