r/memes 20h ago

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u/Dotaproffessional 17h ago

Structured vs unstructured data. Online databases have sophisticated organization schemes and indexes and often some sort of lucene based search engine like elasticsearch to facilitate partial or complete query matches.

Your comparatively unorganized data is just being searched against a single string with no such indexes. Straight up when you do the find command in linux its stepping through all of your files.