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Databases scale just fine. Its called sharding. Azure has HyperScale (with is Citus), AWS has Aurora. The actual problem with databases is upgrading to major ve
by edelweis 5y ago
Databases scale just fine. Its called sharding. Azure has HyperScale (with is Citus), AWS has Aurora. The actual problem with databases is upgrading to major versions without downtime. All the other problems are just noise
- sonthonax 5y agoAgreed. But one impediment to sharding is bad DB design, which is rife right now because everyone starts with Django/Rails/Laravel and starts treating the DB like a document store that happens to have some relational features.