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More databases should be single-threaded

Last night, I caused something on X by saying that (most) transactional databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded: hot take: databases should be single-threaded someone a long time ago decided that database shards should be multi-threaded. ever since then, we've had to worry about transactions, serializability, race conditions, and

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