Relational Databases Aren’t Dinosaurs, They’re Sharks
Oh relational databases, that tired old relic of another age. Codd and friends were great in their time, but serious software engineers need to move on. People building Web Scale™ software You’ve probably heard a similar sentiment at some point. That relational databases were great, but they are...
Hasnain says:
If you zoom out a little this was a great read on engineering trade offs and how to approach designing programs and systems.
“As Rich Hickey once said:
Programmers know the benefits of everything and the tradeoffs of nothing.
We see the amazing benchmarks that some NoSQL databases provide, and we say “wow, they are so much faster/better/scalable than relational databases.” But we don’t ask ourselves why.
Instead of asking “how are they so much better?” we should be asking “what are they giving up?””
Posted on 2021-10-11T19:41:14+0000