> I think that people perceive databases to be slow, not because they are slow, but because they often interact with them in the context of persisting data to d

> I think that people perceive databases to be slow, not because they are slow, but because they often interact with them in the context of persisting data to disk, from across a network, by passing strings back and forth which must be parsed, compiled and executed. If you’ve ever optimized a program, you know that I just listed pretty much the slowest operations you can do on a computer. I’m sorry, but the difference between "databases are slow" and "the only way I can interact with databases is slow" is only pedantics. I understand that, as a database developer working hard to squeeze every bit of performance possible this is frustrating, but as a developer I couldn’t care less about the difference.