Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read
what I think most people would consider “traditional” database systems (sql), are (or were) usually scaled vertically, not horizontally. So the “traditional” way of scaling is to get beefier servers, not more of them. Tho there are many ways to scale “traditional” databases and indeed many of them are able to scale horizontally. I’m just mentioning this because before blockchains, people “suffered” sort of similar issues, it was hard or costly to scale a database beyond certain point because adding servers to split the load wasn’t an option necessarily.
