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> But I don't see this model much. Why?

It does exist (I'm one of them), and it's much more common on expensive databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. With free databases, it's relatively inexpensive to throw more hardware at the problem. When licensing costs $2,000 USD per CPU core or higher, there's much more incentive for companies to bring an expert in quickly to get hardware costs under control.

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Yup, SQL Server performance and licensing (!) consultants came out of retirement after MS doubled the licensing costs in 2012.

Managers don't like paying for optimization consultants, but it's the easiest way to both improve current performance and scale a master.

Note that Oracle positions MySQL as a replacement for SQL Server, as "moderate-performance databases." :)

Source: DBA.

https://metrixdata360.com/pricing-series/1500-price-increase...

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