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You can throw python threads at it, but if each request traverses the big old datastructure using python code and serialises a result then you’re stuck with only one live thread at a time (due to the GIL). In Java it’s so much easier especially if the datastructure is read only or is updated periodically in an atomic fashion. Every attempt to do something like this in python has led me to having to abandon nice pythonic datastructures, fiddle around with shared memory binary formats, before sighing and reaching for java! Especially annoying if the service makes use of handy libraries like numpy/pandas/scipy etc!