OpenAI powers ChatGPT's 800 million users with PostgreSQL, scaling to over a million queries per second using a single primary instance and 50 read replicas on Azure, without sharding. This simple, optimized approach defies conventions, leveraging standard features for efficiency and reliability in AI workloads.
Turso reimagines SQLite as a distributed edge database for AI and low-latency apps, offering global replication, concurrent writes via MVCC, embedded replicas, vector search, and materialized views. Open-source and community-driven, it provides scalable pricing from free tiers, enabling seamless data access across devices and fostering innovation in decentralized computing.
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