[merb]

not everything is transaction centric. and also before I make a transaction I mostly fetch various stuff before and sometimes after.

and also my count example, it just makes no sense to have the count and the list data called inside a transaction (ok there are cases, but these are way more rare, because mostly It's not to bad to give users a wrong count, you don't need strict Serializability)

[zzzeek]

see my edit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218862 where I propose a challenge to show that it's more efficient to use ten relational database connections for a request that needs to run ten small queries, vs running ten queries on a single DB connection.