Upside down rollercoaster at a fair? Hard pass.

I’d also suggest looking at ZFS. Works great on Linux and it’s super powerful.

https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Detecting,_querying_and_testing

Not necessarily a pain, you just have to model the data very differently in something like DynamoDB. Those views are secondary indexes.

Search, though, you’re right. You’d be running ElasticSearch along side it and the cost and complexity starts to go up. Or just abandon having a functional search entirely, like Reddit did…

How is it? I was never a huge Diablo fan, but played 3 through because I got it for free with World of Warcraft. It was okay, but I thought the story was kind of meh and it didn’t have the replayability for me as something like Dark Souls.