Everything wrong with databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary
This post is not going to be about what’s wrong with individual databases. There are so many databases and so many individual API issues, operational problems, and arbitrary limitations that it would be take forever to cover all of them. This post is about what’s wrong with databases as a collection. It’s about what’s wrong with databases as they exist today conceptually and have existed for decades.
Of course, something can only be wrong if there’s a different, better way to do things. There is...
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