Hey all, Rutvij here from the Bubble team. Not a placebo @th18 , you are right, the DB performance for creating, editing, and retrieving has improved! Josh covered it in his monthly forum post - copying and pasting here:
We upgraded our platform’s database, which improved the speed of a number of data operations and overall performance. The biggest wins we’re seeing are in operations that insert or update data, up to 25% faster. Searching databases is up to 20% faster, and retrieving data is up to 11% faster. I know that work that requires downtime on your end can be stressful, but I’m very pleased that this work means better performance across the platform. Thanks for your patience there.