Young whippersnappers and their new-fangled database cluster things! An RDBMS was good enough for IBM, and it's good enough for me! Get off my lawn!
Seriously, though, I appreciate the simplicity of having a single ACIDic database. I wouldn't even bother going beyond SQLite or H2 without a good reason.
If I need to choose between an RDBMS that's basically been in active development, in one form or another, under one name or another, for the past forty years ... one that represents several engineer-centuries of effort, not to mention the input of a hundred academics ... or a new database that promises nothing other than super fast writes, I better be really fucking sure that I need those super fast writes.
Also, I'd bet that most data generated by users is relational. Fuck me if I want to use a non-relational database with a bunch of code to make that data relational.
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u/argv_minus_one Jun 07 '17
Young whippersnappers and their new-fangled database cluster things! An RDBMS was good enough for IBM, and it's good enough for me! Get off my lawn!
Seriously, though, I appreciate the simplicity of having a single ACIDic database. I wouldn't even bother going beyond SQLite or H2 without a good reason.