Like the F35 debacle, trying to make something that's good at everything, you end up with something fit for nothing. There's a lot to be said for simpler, fit f

Like the F35 debacle, trying to make something that's good at everything, you end up with something fit for nothing. There's a lot to be said for simpler, fit for specialized purpose designs. The same applies in computer software. Oracle attempts to be a one size fits all database, but as a row store it can never compete with column stores for analytics. As a disk-based, latching, locking, logging database, it can never compete with in memory stores that avoid those overheads. Really just an expensive pile of bytes that claims to solve all your problems, but is fit for nothing.