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So this offers a solution for very large clients who have found the limits of single-server databases. One of the limitations to most SQL is that the solution as needs grow tends to be a scaling up with a server usually with more cores, ssd, and memory. You will eventually reach a maximum in a server, and then performance tends to decline. This is assuming your business requires one large database server.
Our hosting solution provides standard packages that will fit most clients needs. Each instance will require the resources of a fraction of server, much like a VPS is allocated the resources of a fraction of a server. It appears what this platform does is intelligently scale virtual resources, while hacking part of the SQL code to allow more efficient processing in a multi-server setup. That makes sense for people who buy into the cloud, or clients who have very high needs.
For flarum, our clients are splitting up a server in multiple databases, there is no one client who will be making transactions at rates where this kind of solution makes sense. When we can fit the whole databases of all instances used on a server into memory, this isn't going to be an edge. If a client has a need that a single server can't fit into memory, this is where such a solution may make good sense.
