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# [Why Distributed Database Need Global Secondary Indexes](https://mahmoudreda.hashnode.dev/why-distributed-database-need-global-secondary-indexes?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

At its core, a database is just a system that writes data to a disk and reads it back. When a database is small, finding a specific record is fast. But as tables grow to millions or billions of rows,

Jul 18 · 8 min read · mahmoudreda.hashnode.dev  
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