this reminds me of stackoverflow's vertical scaling with a fail over server.<p>drastically simplifies scaling when you are dealing with only one machine with huge amount of RAM and maximum cores.<p>I think the most you can get now is 192x2 cores and double digit TB of RAM<p>but more economical is proably 128x2 cores with single digit TB of RAM<p>its pretty insane how much traffic you can throw at a single machine like this espeically if you use optimized languages like Go or Rust to handle traffic.<p>there's still use for distributed computing but 99.8% of websites do not really need it.
For clarification OceanBase is a distributed database offering from the Ant group from Alibaba that also owns and operates Alipay.<p>There's another related storage solutions by Huawei namely OceanStor but the database or storage engine is HPDA or Huawei High Performance Data Analytics [1].<p>[1] OceanStor Pacific Storage for High-Performance Data Analytics .<p><a href="https://e.huawei.com/eu/topic/storage/high-performance-data-analytics" rel="nofollow">https://e.huawei.com/eu/topic/storage/high-performance-data-...</a>