I seem to remember Snowflake was a relational db that claimed indexes weren't required in most circumstances, but I only used it briefly. I guess the indexes ar

I seem to remember Snowflake was a relational db that claimed indexes weren't required in most circumstances, but I only used it briefly. I guess the indexes are implemented under the hood somewhere and it's not really a massive problem to create indexes if you have a technical team and can plan your queries to an extent. The way in which people used to use databases Oracle/SqlServer/Ingres etc has changed so much. When I started working with Oracle the whole system was centered around the database, but a lot has changed especially with cloud and (micro)service approach. I actually quite liked how things used to be, it worked well for the most part, but scaling was difficult. It's still difficult, but for a different reason.