Whatever limit has been reached varies, but in my experience it is
typically the response time in the database.

Agreed, but that's why you do things like sorting on the web server, and leave the DB out of it. Web servers scale horizontally, that is you can add more and more of them. DB servers scale vertically, you can only have one (well, usually), and you just keep getting a bigger and bigger one.

-Walden


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