There are a few things preventing it from being an effective database for general-purpose content: - "bespoke" data storage [1] - originally optimized for sma

There are a few things preventing it from being an effective database for general-purpose content: - "bespoke" data storage [1] - originally optimized for small amounts of data [2] v3 made progress on both of these fronts but see [3][4] [1] https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/2647 https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/2647 [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/etcd-dev/store/etcd-dev/ATZm7sRJy60/aqeQcrIB7NcJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/etcd-dev/store/et... [3] https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/faq.html#deployment https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/faq.html#deployment [4] https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/op-guide/hardware.html https://coreos.com/etcd/docs/latest/op-guide/hardware.html