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Would I build a billion-record Facebook replacement in SQLite? Probably not. I probably wouldn't try to scale it up on vanilla Postgres, either.


None of those listed options included Postgres, but Facebook originally was running on 30k+ MySQL servers, so clearly they made do.


Everything I listed at least claims to be a distributed database (also in the title of this article: "distributed sqlite").

However, Postgres is not and never claimed to be a distributed database, so you are erecting and attacking a strawman argument by choosing something that wasn't even in the list.




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