Let's put it this way. I always end up needing the functionality and ACID guarantees of a database. I always wish I had a database. But some times I'm forced t

Let's put it this way. I always end up needing the functionality and ACID guarantees of a database. I always wish I had a database. But some times I'm forced to use the project's legacy data stores (often flat-file data lakes) and watch every wheel get reinvented as we struggle to glue consistency, transactions, a bespoke query language, etc. onto an unwilling pile of unstructured data.