It’s not even the speed, it’s writing queries. The syntax is clunkier, and since you don’t have a nice clean schema, you end up doing a lot of jumping through h

It’s not even the speed, it’s writing queries. The syntax is clunkier, and since you don’t have a nice clean schema, you end up doing a lot of jumping through hoops to check for the presence of keys/proper data types, etc. Or doing your basic data validation in your app instead of letting the database do its job.