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> Sometimes I feel like databases were created by people who never built a website before. Yeah, well, no big wonder: Many database systems were created long b
by CRConrad 5y ago
> Sometimes I feel like databases were created by people who never built a website before.
Yeah, well, no big wonder: Many database systems were created long before the Web.
- gkoberger 5y agoI mean, Mongo came out in 2009 and Amazon predates both MySQL and Postgres. I will say my criticism doesn't apply to Firebase; they definitely do a lot of the things I mentioned. My only issue with Firebase is that it's very much intended to be used directly with a realtime frontend.
- CRConrad 5y agoMongo, MySQL? Yeah, sure. But: DB2, Rdb, Interbase, Oracle, Ingres... Bah, I can't recall them all. Just go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab... and click the table header to sort by "First public release date".