Cloudflare details how D1 supports millions of small databases
Cloudflare has described changes to D1’s control plane designed for applications that create a separate database per user, tenant or preview. The company says AI-assisted application builders are increasing demand for that pattern. Its architecture keeps centralized metadata services away from the critical query path where possible.
The essentials
- D1 is a managed database service built on SQLite.
- The engineering account emphasizes distributed metadata, retries and idempotent operations.
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