// Hacker Noon · 19 February 2026

I Spent Two Weeks Testing 8 Databases With the Same Question - Here's What Actually Happened

An analytics dashboard at a company was taking 4 minutes to load. The company was spending $8,000 a month on a database that was basically doing math on spreadsheets. The database we were currently using—the one we were using—took as long to load as it takes to microwave a microwave.

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