How scalable Camunda is, compared to Zeebe?

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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I know that Zeebe is the process automation engine powering Camunda Cloud. The first thing marketed about the Zeebe is the “Horizontally Scalable Workflow Orchestration” (at least what I get to read while searching for Zeebe).

Is Camunda not Horizontally Scalable? What about running around 3 instances of Camunda connecting to the same MySQL DB?

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The bottleneck in camunda is the process DB. If you manage to make it wide enough (for your application profile) you’ll hardly have any problems.

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Hi
One way to horizontally scale Camunda is to partition or shard your application. However this requires your application to become shard aware. Zalando have successfully used this approach…

regards

Rob

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