[hans_castorp]

> Some ancient design decisions have aged poorly, such as its one connection per process model

Oracle uses the same model by default on Linux.

Since 19 (or maybe earlier) it is configurable though, but the default is still one process per connection if I'm not mistaken.

[The_Colonel]

It's actually quite impressive they were willing & able to make such a drastic change in such an old and conservative codebase.

[hans_castorp]

Not sure how drastic it was to be honest. Under Windows, multi-threading was always the only option. So in theory, they already had code for that.