A BILLION Rows of Data Printed on Paper #ad

A visual demonstration of big data scale by physically printing database rows on paper. Starting from 50 rows per page, the comparison scales up: 1,000 rows is 20 pages, a million rows is 20,000 sheets (2 meters tall), and a billion rows would be 2 km of paper — taller than any building in Canada. PostgreSQL can query a million rows instantly, while Spotify generates a trillion events per day. The video is sponsored by Supabase, which offers PostgreSQL with real-time storage and auto-generated APIs.