@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com
Post #2445494
2023-09-22 05:54 UTC
@chrisg@fosstodon.org SQL based system are doing wonderful on todays hardware.
And they’ve been tested at basically any scale for decades, anything trying to replace them would IMHO need a tremendous amount of testing and effort to even come close to the understanding and reliability we are seeing in todays systems.
What exactly are the issues? I think I’m missing something here.
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@chrisg@fosstodon.org 2023-09-22 06:10
@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com I agree, SQL has kept up with the times. I guess your argument is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", which is fair. But, I think hardware has moved on qualitatively from the 70s and 80s, and it's a legitimate question whether relational is still the best architectural model for it. The models (and their implementations) that came out in the 00s (docs, graph etc) didn't answer that question. So we need to keep trying. I wrote about this here: https://radiki.dev/posts/glowdust-intro/