> would be to store about 16GB of research data efficiently since it was becoming extremely slow to work with on her own computer. Almost immediately the idea was brought up to simply drop everything into an SQLite database. And to that I immediately had to respond “No!”
> The data will now (probably) be transferred to a sharded MySQL database cluster and that will speed up almost anything by large margins.
> The data will now (probably) be transferred to a sharded MySQL database cluster and that will speed up almost anything by large margins.
A sharded MySQL cluster for 16GB of data?!!