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Re:We do not use foreign keys (2016) by devy on Friday November 08, 2019 @11:19PM (#21489567)
In addition to context + YMMV, I want to mention, sharding is NOT THE ONLY solution for scaling[1], albeit it's a popular technique. So that makes Shlomi Noach's first point weaker.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-alternatives-to-sharding-data...

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