Media metadata simplifies retrieval and adds context, organization, searchability to billions of posts containing various media types on Reddit.
Reddit addressed challenges of inconsistent storage formats and lack of uniformity in querying by consolidating media metadata into AWS Aurora Postgres.
AWS Aurora Postgres was chosen over Apache Cassandra for media metadata management due to better ad-hoc debugging capabilities and flexible query patterns.
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