> There are tens of thousands of options out there and every single day a new one appears here on HN. Not really, realistically you have a handful of options f

> There are tens of thousands of options out there and every single day a new one appears here on HN. Not really, realistically you have a handful of options for every use case unless you're deliberately picking really obscure stuff for the sake of it. > Why isn't out there an ultimate general-purpose database? Because: 1. There's many good solutions that all work well especially if we're talking about general purpose. 2. Still not everything works for every use case. 3. It's healthy to have options to pick from.