Post #2445502
2023-09-22 14:00 UTC
@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com To be clear - I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, with SQL. Works fine, will continue working fine, I don't see it going anywhere like the network model, for example.
But it is a product of the 70s, where physical proximity of data on disk meant different things than it does today. When you executed on a single CPU, with much more expensive cycles.
Does it work today? Yes. Can we do better, with a redesigned model? Also yes.
(Did NoSQL achieve this? I think not)
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@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com 2023-09-22 14:13
@chrisg@fosstodon.org Can we do better? Absolutely yes. Malloy comes to mind in one of the recent forays. I do not understand when you say "I don't see it going anywhere". If anything it is growing. There are more SQL projects in NOSQL databases than SQL databases. History is rife with people crowing "SQL is dead", and then embarrassed with having to do a "mea culpa, here is another SQL-like" project.