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by knightni 4882 days ago
I would imagine that for your average startup, using solutions that don't even support transactionality will cause greater complexity issues. Especially given the enormous window before db scale out/up becomes an issue on well-designed applications.
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Enormous window ?

Many startups would be using AWS and it is not inconceivable that you would have Multi-AZ/Multi-Region VPSs. Scaling out != Expensive.