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Multi-database support is not "basic". At what point do you need that? What percentage of users do? Regardless, it was fully supported in gems for years before

• zbentley 6y ago
  > At what point do you need that? What percentage of users do? In my experience, rather a lot.
  • obiefernandez 6y ago
    If you need to connect to multiple databases at a time for your business logic then you're doing it wrong.
    • zbentley 6y ago
      ...are you serious? Virtually every software shop I've worked at has had most backend code communicating with multiple databases to get the job done. Sometimes those databases were behind [micro]service abstractions and the communication was indirected by RPC/one-way async dispatch. Sometimes it wasn't. But multiple backend datastores' contents were required for most business operations. The only places I've worked with that didn't need that were very, very small (single digits of thousands or fewer users).
• yxhuvud 6y ago
  Of six rails shops I've worked on, half used connection to a secondary sql database in one way or another. Exact use cases has differed but I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually a rather high percentage of medium sized to big apps that use multiples.