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Seemingly, their way of thinking goes roughly like this:

If I have 10 billion rows in an SQL database, with a UNIQUE index, and do SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE pk=<number>, then I have “processed” 10 billion rows.

If I do 10k of these queries per second, I have processed 100T rows per second.



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