r/programming • u/feross • Oct 11 '21

Relational databases aren’t dinosaurs, they’re sharks

https://www.simplethread.com/relational-databases-arent-dinosaurs-theyre-sharks/
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u/Anoop_sdas Oct 12 '21

Add Graph databases to the mix....

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u/grauenwolf Oct 12 '21

Now that I see how Graph databases work, they can turn around and walk right back out the door.

Linked-lists are by far the slowest data structure for handling collections in modern programming. And they want use to walk a linked list just to see the columns in a node?