Basic Query → is a foreground query. Each query by default uses 4 query threads (single-query-threads), query-threads-limit is 128 default - so by default, you can start 128/4 = 32 parallel queries. Now depending on how many parallel queries you are initiating (if you are specifying the query as “short” then it uses only a single query thread), you can play with the settings and the math. Slide below will help explain.