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Scaling up means each query is faster (3x in this particular case). Scaling out means they can support more clients/domains (more DB shards, more web servers, m

by thamer 6y ago

Scaling up means each query is faster (3x in this particular case). Scaling out means they can support more clients/domains (more DB shards, more web servers, more concurrency, etc). These are two distinct axes that are not incompatible with each other.

baby 6y ago
Not always true though, scaling out can make your queries faster by alleviating the load