I think there is probably an argument to be made that if that’s a scary and unreasonable sounding number for your use case then it’s not the right tool for the

I think there is probably an argument to be made that if that’s a scary and unreasonable sounding number for your use case then it’s not the right tool for the job and maybe you might want to consider PostgreSQL knowing that you can migrate later if needed or if you don’t have a lot of many to many data relations then even a document database might get you that kind of scalability benefits but at a fraction of the cost.