The killer app for UUIDv7 is logs. High-volume, distributed, non-public data that you probably want to partition by time as well. Log volume typically grows much, much faster than transactional writes, and any reasonably big organization is going to want to keep that data out of their relational database.
As far as relational databases go, another common workload they're a bad fit for is analytical queries. If you employ any data analysts or operations staff, they can bring even the biggest deployment of Postgres/MySQL to its knees pretty fast with relatively simple queries. Read replicas buy you a little runway there, but they're just not a good or cost-effective way to power BI workloads.
> To take one example this high traffic website (HN) uses one db
First of all, HN does not use a single database! E.g. it powers search with Algolia and API queries via Big Query, and that's just for external traffic.
Second, HN is not a high (write) traffic website. It's a forum. We can actually see from those serial IDs that there are about ~50 million all time comments. HN is about 20 years old; that works out to about 5 writes per minute. Of course growth has increased over time, but it's still probably less than 1 write per second.
So, I'd agree with you that lots of interesting websites can power their primary application write traffic with a traditional relational database, but I think you'll find that those properties end up needing several other databases anyway for other purposes.
As far as relational databases go, another common workload they're a bad fit for is analytical queries. If you employ any data analysts or operations staff, they can bring even the biggest deployment of Postgres/MySQL to its knees pretty fast with relatively simple queries. Read replicas buy you a little runway there, but they're just not a good or cost-effective way to power BI workloads.
> To take one example this high traffic website (HN) uses one db
First of all, HN does not use a single database! E.g. it powers search with Algolia and API queries via Big Query, and that's just for external traffic.
Second, HN is not a high (write) traffic website. It's a forum. We can actually see from those serial IDs that there are about ~50 million all time comments. HN is about 20 years old; that works out to about 5 writes per minute. Of course growth has increased over time, but it's still probably less than 1 write per second.
So, I'd agree with you that lots of interesting websites can power their primary application write traffic with a traditional relational database, but I think you'll find that those properties end up needing several other databases anyway for other purposes.