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RDBMS's are still very much an 80s thing. Great at dynamic queries, horrible at managing changes in an immutable, atomic, versioned way. The structure and relat
by 0xbadcafebee 3y ago
RDBMS's are still very much an 80s thing. Great at dynamic queries, horrible at managing changes in an immutable, atomic, versioned way. The structure and relationship of data is so brittle it's kind of crazy it's still used. Probably it's because so many people have grown dependent on its particular flaws; the incumbent just lumbers on.
- tmountain 3y agoThere’s always a trade off though. Append-only storage models are great for use cases where they are truly necessary, but they also store substantially more data than mutable databases do, and designing for something like Datomic carries a heavier cognitive cost than a simple RDBMS.