For compute specifically MotherDuck is a scale-up, not scale-out system [0]

Storage is naturally distributed due to underlying IaaS.

Rather, that seems to be an implementation detail. What use cases are relevant is the key. Are we chasing big Apple-sized workloads? No. [1]

That said, scaling-up on EC2, especially with our one-instance-per-user architecture, fits vast majority of workloads we've seen in our past lives building Exabyte-scale systems.

[0] https://motherduck.com/blog/the-simple-joys-of-scaling-up/ [1] https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/