---
title: "How Reddit built a Metadata Store that Handles 100k Reads per Second"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-reddit-built-a-metadata-store-that-handles-100k-reads-per-second-zf5utfodw
source_url: https://blog.quastor.org/p/reddit-built-metadata-store-handles-100k-reads-per-second
type: article
source: "Quastor Daily"
published: 2024-05-07T21:51:27.166Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z
tags: ["postgresql", "apache-cassandra"]
reading_time: 11
upvotes: 14
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How Reddit built a Metadata Store that Handles 100k Reads per Second

**[Quastor Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/quastor)** · 11 min read · 14 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

This post discusses how Reddit built a metadata store that handles 100k reads per second. It explores the high level goals of the metadata store, the considerations for picking the database, and the scaling strategies used by Reddit.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.quastor.org/p/reddit-built-metadata-store-handles-100k-reads-per-second>

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