It’s because you introduce a lot of latency. Cockroachdb for example (which is a great db) has a lot of latency compared to Postgres. At the time of its relea

It’s because you introduce a lot of latency. Cockroachdb for example (which is a great db) has a lot of latency compared to Postgres. At the time of its release it was probably hard to justify having an order of magnitude more latency than competitors (of course they were not fault tolerant, but still).