March 24, 2025 I'm so sick of Key-Value. The most unopinionated, uninspired data model that is a pain to use for anything. They're very popular! Among database vendors. Or, specifically, storage engine vendors. They love to offer you a byte array to byte array map, and if they are feeling particularly generous, it might even be ordered so that you can do range scans. The problem is that the only thing that a KV interface is good for is as a building block for a reasonable data model. This being ...