Byteball database does grow fast, it can compress well, there can be other implementations to make it even smaller.
Text is compressed much better than JPG photos. And you can't compress below some threshold if you use lossless compression. Maybe read basics of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory before posting misleading "information"?
Fuck off IOTA-developer, people can today gzip -9 compress the 1.2GB database to 358MB.
Not to mention, a hub or witness today is hardly putting on any CPU load, so it is even possible to keep the database in memory, compress-decompress on-demand, yet retain same throughput.
Just fuck off IOTA-scammer.