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0 pointsPuercoPop7y ago0 comments

> Unless your data requirements are very specific, mem only, or not adapted to the relational paradigm any SQL engine will provide you with the best and more efficient algorithms to manipulate your data in the most common situations.

Too bad that Michael Stonebraker, Turing Award winner, disagrees with you. SQL are not the best solution for any common use case from the performance perspective.

Nevermind what they do to the design of an application. IMHO less people should default to using a database upfront. At least while protyping the idea.

https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf

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Sean17087y ago

> IMHO less people should default to using a database upfront. At least while protyping the idea.

Surely it should be the opposite? While you're prototyping you should use a DB by default, then switch to your own implementation if you find out that it will speed things up (and you need that speed). It's not like the code that you would replace a DB with is going to be trivial, using a DB is going to keep the code simple until you need it to be complex.

manigandham7y ago

You missed the "in the most common situations" part.

Modern RDBMS can handle millions of ops/sec and terabytes of data. They do the job fine 99% of the time and are constantly adding new features.

If you have the 1% need for another data store, there are hundreds of options, and interestingly many of them are also starting to implement SQL as an interface now.

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