SingleStoreDB, a distributed database, offers elasticity and scalability with its flexible parallelism (FP) feature, which enables transparent scalability without manual sharding. The feature is enabled by default for Singlestore Helios users but off by default for SingleStoreDB Self-Managed users. FP allows individual queries to take advantage of all available cores, even if the database has only a few partitions per leaf node. This eliminates the need for manual partitioning and sharding at the application level. With FP, developers can focus on writing applications rather than managing data platforms, saving development time and resources. The feature is part of SingleStoreDB's long-term strategy to become an ultimate elastic relational database for modern applications.