Chapter 03 / Field Report — Atlas of Documents / Adoption & Scale
Leafstack 07 / 18
Insight · Q4 2024 platform telemetry

Documents don’t scale by sharding harder —
they scale by getting out of the way.

Active workloads on serverless tier
3.2M
+47% YoY vs. 2.18M in Q4 2023

Serverless overtook provisioned clusters as the default deployment shape in late August, the first quarter the elastic tier has carried more than half of new collections.

Active workloads per quarter, by tier
Indexed · millions
Provisioned clusters Serverless tier Free + sandbox baseline
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