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@@ -498,6 +498,11 @@ look something like:
     RESULTS_BACKEND = RedisCache(
         host='localhost', port=6379, key_prefix='superset_results')
 
+Note that it's important that all the worker nodes and web servers in
+the Superset cluster share a common metadata database.
+This means that SQLite will not work in this context since it has
+limited support for concurrency and
+typically lives on the local file system.
 
 Also note that SQL Lab supports Jinja templating in queries, and that it's
 possible to overload