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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – To B-Tree or not to B-Tree

Coding Blocks

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Is It Really a Big Deal, or Is It a Bad Idea?

We are modifying values in place, which makes it a little bit easier to maintain transactional integrity. It also is much more efficient on dis space, cause we're not ating our data. But dumb if there's a cost o that. So we'd be writing up a billion bites or whatever, or you wouldn't even have that much room to store it all in a single page,. Is the problem? You had het the ranges, right? And that that's the problem, as you can only store as many key ranges as you have room for on that particular page size in that four k block. If you had to rewrite everything back up, in worst case scenario, it

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