IOPS vs Throughput

Both of these are [[performance]] measurements for storage devices, and each are important depending on your use case.

IOPS (I/O operations per second):

• Number of read and write operations per second
• Important metric for quick transactions, low-latency apps, transactional workloads

Throughput:

• Measures the number of bits read or written per second (MB/s)
• Important metric for large datasets, complex queries

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