Yes, I agree with this entirely. While not perfect, if you treat your data as real data, instead of magical database rows, you tend to get predictable results.

Yes, I agree with this entirely. While not perfect, if you treat your data as real data, instead of magical database rows, you tend to get predictable results. Pretend the database doesn't exist and these are data structures in your process space -- where do the access patterns degenerate, etc.