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I am quite sure Oracle and MS SQL server do just fine in multi-node cluster based architectures, but maybe that isn't their target audience.

MSSQL has a full-blown Death Star deployment option now:

The HN crowd does not talk much about those, but every single place I have worked used them or Postgres.

Same here, I happily ignored all the NoSQL movement, and little by little, they got all relevant features out of it.