This is really common and works pretty awesomely. MySQL is extremely battle tested and there’s lots of experts out there for it. FB built a similar system to m

This is really common and works pretty awesomely. MySQL is extremely battle tested and there’s lots of experts out there for it. FB built a similar system to maintain their graph: https://blog.yugabyte.com/facebooks-user-db-is-it-sql-or-nosql/ https://blog.yugabyte.com/facebooks-user-db-is-it-sql-or-nos... It’s a ton of tiny DBs that look like one massive eventually consistent DB