Microsoft’s new Azure SQL DB Hyperscale does something very similar: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/01/how-azure-sql-db-hyperscale-works/ https://www.b

Microsoft’s new Azure SQL DB Hyperscale does something very similar: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/01/how-azure-sql-db-hyperscale-works/ https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2019/01/how-azure-sql-db-h... I sketched out a lot of architecture diagrams in that, showing how it differs from traditional RDBMS’s, and I tried to keep the post approachable for database folks from different platforms.