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The communication between the back end application and the database itself has always fascinated me. I'm surprised that we didn't have standardized on a actual own wire protocol or that. As far as I know, there is no standard. Each vendor kind of create their own flavor of a binary protocol fits their needs effectively. Even if you have 100,000 users, those 100,000 Users coming from different connections,. The backend to database connection is determined and will know. It's one backend most of the time talking to one database.

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