Storage platform for scaling MySQL from YouTube

From the project site (vitess.io):

> MySQL doesn't natively support sharding, but you will likely need it as your database grows.

Except, what tiny percentage of database backed applications in the world actually need sharding?

Just like the project that has 10 actual customers and uses dozens of managed resources in AWS/Google Cloud/Azure when a couple of load balanced/failover servers would work a lot more simply and a lot cheaper, this is going to reinforce the idea that a Database with 500Mb of production data needs to be sharded.

Honestly, I think it's entirely apt that Shard is just one letter away from Shart.