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Best Practices Working with Billion-row Tables in Databases
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In this video, I discuss 3 methods to work with tables of billion rows. This discussion is inspired by a comment on my YouTube video on Twitter System Design right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfq-LG9ZJQA&lc=UgyYbm5889dW0XtKhsV4AaABAg
Chapters
Intro 0:00
1. Brute Force Distributed Processing 2:30
2. Working with a Subset of table 3:35
2.1 Indexing 3:55
2.2 Partitioning 5:30
2.3 Sharding 7:30
3. Avoid it all together (reshuffle the whole design) 9:10
Summary 11:30
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Translated At: 2025-06-25T15:04:25Z