Comment by jorroll
2 years ago
The docs indicate[1] that electric's syncing logic, "shapes", are handled transactionally. How would electric handle an initial sync of 500mb or an initial sync of 10gb?
[1]: https://electric-sql.com/docs/usage/data-access/shapes#data-loading
Apps with large dataset have their own characteristics: they are more tolerant to slower initial sync. We can resume replication at point-in-time, so even if a shape takes long to load, we can resume replication at the point we started synching the shape.
We will be working on the engineering to handle transferring large shapes.