I'm probably missing something, but what's the point of using something like Tornado to handle loads of concurrent connections when your database can only handl

I'm probably missing something, but what's the point of using something like Tornado to handle loads of concurrent connections when your database can only handle a small number anyway? All those epolls will slow the app down, waiting on a connection from the db pool. Check out Concurrence instead: http://opensource.hyves.org/ http://opensource.hyves.org/ At least that's got an async MySQL driver