> But databases are just magic. 100%!!! I hate how developers talk about a "database" as a monolithic concept. It's an abstract concept with countless impleme

> But databases are just magic. 100%!!! I hate how developers talk about a "database" as a monolithic concept. It's an abstract concept with countless implementations built off of competing philosophies of that abstract concept. SQL is only slightly more concrete, but there's as many variants and special quirks of SQL dialects out there as databases.