and open source instructions set is an advantage to China as well, perhaps some pressure from "up-there" after the chip act was signed and offered lots of money to private companies?
Also Reuters forgot to mention that Hungary is also a revisionist country as Russia is, and that it wants Transylvania, part of Slovakia and part of Serbia.
Oracle and MySQL with InnoDB engine are the ones who can really do Index Only, aka Covering Index, in a high OLTP (where readers do not block writers). SQL Server can also do it, but with reads blocking writes (except with snapshot isolation). PostgreSQL can also do it, with non-blocking reads, but not efficiently when the tables have concurrent modifications.