I should probably give up on being a software engineer if it is.
None of the big US clouds support Infiniband broadly (Azure & Oracle have some support) so 3FS itself is not very useful to US companies who want to use public clouds.
The hierarchical model is applicable to many problems and actually in part why moving off mainframes is challenging because IMS is so much more efficient than the relational model for applications like airline tickets.
There have been several efforts to leverage object stores in the way they did that I am aware of but it was a hard sell.
The hierarchical model really only works for many to one relationships, and it's integrity model differs and is not as DRY.
There are lessons to learn here but it requires some relearning.
When you have a shopping cart, having data local to the server handling the transaction is also a benefit.
Codd's relational model has advantages, but has held back some efforts because we are just use to dealing with the painful parts that we often don't consider other options.
DuckDB can read SQLite so you can even imagine using them side by side in the same system, serving point reads and writes from SQLite and using DuckDB for stuff like aggregates and searches that SQLite is slower at.
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond/blob/ed112db42af4d0...
Understanding Smallpond and 3FS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43232410
also:
DuckDB goes distributed? DeepSeek's smallpond takes on Big Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43206964 (no comments there, but some people have been recommending that article)
