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Watch for

The headroom sitting comfortably above one, and the crossover landing exactly at the single-node ceiling.

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You'll learn

That scale is the trigger for the fork: a relational primary buys joins and transactions until the write load outgrows one node and forces you to shard.

How it runs

Size the write load against a single primary's ceiling, count the shards a scale-out would need, then drag the write rate past the ceiling to watch the answer flip.