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There are some cases, where scaling is relatively hard to achieve in a sane manner. Especially when you're in that weird place where you've grown out of the SME solutions, but can't really justify the enterprise solution yet. I've worked on such a project, switching to the big boy DB cluster was pushed back again and again because of very high upfront costs (licenses and staff).