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Comment by incoming1211

3 days ago

Because transactional databases are perfectly fine for this type of thing when you have 0 to 100k users.

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0xbadcafebee  2 days ago

The total number of users in your system is not a performance characteristic. And transactions are generally wrong for write-heavy anything. Further, if you can just append then the transaction is meaningless.

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