Excellent post. This seriously needs to be reiterated to everyone who needs to choose a database. Sharded MySQL means you're tying your architecture together w

Excellent post. This seriously needs to be reiterated to everyone who needs to choose a database. Sharded MySQL means you're tying your architecture together with boogers and spit. But the problem isn't the relational model itself, and there's no good reason that model shouldn't be able to scale.