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“Handful” is referring to cases where “your sequence generator can't number their order line items fast enough” is true. And I stand by that. And if you want “other information”, good database design would put that other information in a column of its own. Distributed databases have their place. But the tradeoffs they bring are often not worth it for your 1.0/MVP app.