> It took three years to finish, but our follow-up to the 2006 "What Goes Around Comes Around" is finally out! Stonebraker and I examine the last 20 years in da

> It took three years to finish, but our follow-up to the 2006 "What Goes Around Comes Around" is finally out! Stonebraker and I examine the last 20 years in databases and discuss why relational databases + SQL will continue to remain on top. The catalyst for the paper was this 2021 HackerNews post about somebody wondering why people use relational databases instead of graph databases, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736405. 2024 paper: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec2024.pdf https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2024/whatgoesaround-sigmodrec20... 2006 paper: https://people.csail.mit.edu/tdanford/6830papers/stonebraker-what-goes-around.pdf https://people.csail.mit.edu/tdanford/6830papers/stonebraker...