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Completely agree regarding the complexity of various flavors of SQL. The thing is, this complexity came from legitimate need. My team gets by with a very small
by zomglings 6y ago
Completely agree regarding the complexity of various flavors of SQL. The thing is, this complexity came from legitimate need.
My team gets by with a very small subset of PostgreSQL functionality day to day because most of the stuff we're doing with our database is just not that complicated. Simple lookups, writes, joins when our applications interact with the database. Simple joins, grouping, aggregation when we personally interact with the database.
We are not confronted with the full complexity of PostgresQL every day. And on, the flip side, the database itself gives us killer functionality in the form of constraints and transactions. It offers a lot more, but this is all we care about an overwhelming majority of the time.
I am curious how you see it. Is there a compelling reason for a team like mine to leave their comfort zone to work with your new database? Does the new query language really solve any problems for Joe Sixpack, developer?