Trying to add transparent caching to a transactional database is just a bad idea and cannot work. Anyone who says it works for them is just in the period after

Trying to add transparent caching to a transactional database is just a bad idea and cannot work. Anyone who says it works for them is just in the period after putting it in place and before when they realize why it cannot work. If it was possible to just slap a cache in between you and the db and magically make shit fast, DB vendors would have done that 20 years ago. Billions of dollars a year is put into relational db development. Papers are published every week, from theoretical ways to model and interact with data to practical things like optimizing query execution plans. Unless Readyset can point to a patent or a paper that has fundamentally revolutionized how database will be built from today forward it is going to be crap and will burn you.