You're talking about extending a database design created 50 years ago to work with models and methods that involve significantly different operations and concep

You're talking about extending a database design created 50 years ago to work with models and methods that involve significantly different operations and concepts. Let the RDBMS die so we can make something that is much more powerful and requires less fidgeting and squinting to work the way we want. RDBMS were a niche research project for a decade before they started to catch on in business apps. They've stayed around forever because they're just functional enough to be dangerous. But we've already hit the upper limits of both reliability and performance years ago (remember NoSQL?) and we just keep bolting on features because nobody wants to leave them. The old designs and implementations are holding us back.