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Re:TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go by riku_iki on Monday January 06, 2025 @06:07PM (#42617137)
distributed DBs provide seamless fault tolerance story usually.

> Consider that a modern NVMe drive can quite easily deliver 1,000,000+ IOPS.

There could be other bottlenecks, for example I am consistently experiencing that linux kernel doesn't handle memory pages allocations fast enough once disk traffic hits few GB/s, because it does it in single thread.

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