You may benefit from something like this if you do an analysis of your DB usage/growth patterns and determine that server/cluster scalability is going to be a n

You may benefit from something like this if you do an analysis of your DB usage/growth patterns and determine that server/cluster scalability is going to be a non-trivial concern in the near future. Volume of data doesn't matter (to a certain point) if you seldom query that data. 1000TB of data that is neither queried nor updated doesn't require a database at all, for example. So, as with all things engineering, it depends. You know you'll benefit from it if you can demonstrate that you'll benefit from it an that the effort/risk/etc. is lower than some other solution you could choose. If you're unable to determine this, you should bring in an expert who can.