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Scale

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Scale

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Vertical scaling sufficient (<10TB, <100K QPS) favors Postgres/MySQL. Horizontal scaling needed for larger workloads favors DynamoDB, Cassandra, CockroachDB, or Vitess (MySQL sharding).

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  • Vertical Scaling Postgres MySQL
  • Horizontal Scaling DynamoDB Cassandra CockroachDB

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