Post #2445495
2023-09-22 06:10 UTC
@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/
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@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com 2023-09-22 06:17
@chrisg@fosstodon.org it’s part of it, I think the other points are - it scales nicely vertically and horizontally, something we don’t often see - there aren’t many use cases where anything else outperforms a SQL database - there are nearly none (except very specific use cases and scale) where a SQL DB doesn’t perform And some of the special cases are covered by extensions such as PGvector and postGIS. (Unrelated - Hugos standard RSS location is hard to guess on mobile, needed my desktop to inspect source)