Cloudflare

Under the hood, off the hot path: how D1 scales to millions of databases

How Cloudflare's D1 keeps query execution at the edge while a separate control plane manages millions of SQLite databases.

Published
2026-10-13
Scale
millions of databases
Techniques
control plane separation multi-tenancy edge computing
Stack
SQLite Durable Objects Workers

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