>> There is a reason almost every new database aims to be distributed from the beginning. That's partly because you can't compete with the existing RDBMSs if y

>> There is a reason almost every new database aims to be distributed from the beginning. That's partly because you can't compete with the existing RDBMSs if you're single node: they are good enough already. Nobody will buy your database if you don't introduce something more novel than PostgreSQL, whether that novelty is worth it or not.