I have a request to potentially lift a lot of limitations with current Datastores:
Would it be possible for ROBLOX to allow devs to optionally lift the limits for datastores and pay for the extra entries themselves? I understand data retrieval can be costly but this would allow for many features such as :
Player profiles with a search system to retrieve player’s data
Interact with players that are offline
Mailbox system (send messages, gifts etc)
An addition like this seems ambitious but would be monumental for the platform so i’d appreciate it a lot if it was taken into consideration!
In general, we use PATCH for all Open Cloud Update* methods. But you’re right that in the case of Data Stores, partial updates aren’t properly supported. (We actually looked into fixing this as part of this release, but ended up not prioritizing it because it would have caused substantial delays and ballooned the project. Something to keep in mind for future Data Stores work for sure though.)