We had a similar thought, but it is not as bad as we think.

We have the benchmarks, and we will be sharing the numbers in subsequent releases.

But, there is still a chance that I may come to bite us and limit us to a smaller scale, and we are ready for it.

Vertical scaling this language also gets into painful territory quite often, I’ve had to workaround this problem before but never with a thing that felt like this: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/syncs/shard...

Why are you guys building Yet Another DB ? Not trying to dissuade you, but what are you trying to solve that the plethora of DB's currently in market in the same space have not solved ? This should be highlighted in your landing page and since your primary audience is other dev's ( tough-est crowd to sell ), be very specific on what value your product brings over the other choices.

it might help to add 99th percentile numbers to the landing page; would do a better job of showing GC impact.