What I struggle with is that half the databases that have been built over the last decade would have claimed these same principles. It isn't so much that these

What I struggle with is that half the databases that have been built over the last decade would have claimed these same principles. It isn't so much that these principles are not novel or unique that gives me pause, but the lack of acknowledgement of how many expertly designed databases failed to deliver on them. These principles contain no insights into why anyone should expect this particular database to succeed where similarly qualified people have failed. At a minimum, these principles smuggle in the assumption that several Hard Problems, both theoretical and practical, have been addressed (which is possible but not in evidence). As another way of framing it, these principles seem to be making the unstated assumption that the Future Database only supports a narrow set of data models and workloads. Which would be considerably less interesting than actually reimagining core database architecture and solving hard problems.