> Using smallpond and 3FS depends largely on your data size and infrastructure:
> Under 10TB: smallpond is likely unnecessary unless you have very specific distributed computing needs. A single-node DuckDB instance or simpler storage solutions will be simpler and possibly more performant.
> 10TB to 1PB: smallpond begins to shine. You'd set up a cluster with several nodes, leveraging 3FS or another fast storage backend to achieve rapid parallel processing.
> Over 1PB (Petabyte-Scale): smallpond and 3FS were explicitly designed to handle massive datasets. At this scale, you'd need to deploy a larger cluster with substantial infrastructure investments.
Makes it very easy to determine if this would be useful for me and how much work I would expect to do to use it.