Databases are some of the most complex pieces of software conceived since the advent of the computing age over half a century ago. [1] Nearly every piece of technology ends up touching the database in some way shape or form. Despite the ubiquity of Databases in the software stack, the vast majority of developers have been conditioned to treat databases as more or less a black box -- complex dense pieces of software conjured up by arch wizards and mavens ensconced in the rarified elite tiers of d...