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I might be missing something, but I think the author has an overly-restrictive view of what an RDBMS is. It's an umbrella term, not an existing and uneditable l

I might be missing something, but I think the author has an overly-restrictive view of what an RDBMS is. It's an umbrella term, not an existing and uneditable list. > Relational data can sit in solutions other than RDBMS. An RDBMS is a system for managing relational databases. If you're storing your data somewhere that lets you manage it relationally, then you're using an RDBMS. It might also do some other things - it might not just be an RDBMS - but it still is one. As long as relational data is useful, which I don't see changing any time soon, there will be a need to manage it, and that means we still need RDBMS.

PaulHoule 4y ago
It's a pretty bad article. I am a fan of DynamoDB for simple applications that have a low transaction rate but that need to run 24-7. (Email list manager, something that parodies NFTs, etc.) For these things I find that running a conventional database in the cloud is unaffordable and tends to drive me crazy with maintenance because the high cost makes me want to lowball the specifications on the machine which means occasionally a small load spike will crash the database and force me to reboot. This article avoids animated image memes and similar sins but it has no depth, it's one of those non-technical technical articles that started to flood the web when Medium came out.
- mooreds 4y ago
  > it has no depth To be fair, it was a tweetstorm that I unrolled into an article.