Michael Stonebraker used to write long, scathing critiques of modern data storage/retrieval fads, and how they were forgetting important historical lessons.
replyThey were terrific reads; his writing on object-oriented databases was the most fun technical reading I did in grad school. And I even learned a lot!
Where was this? I would like to read. I have read his papers and they are great, and usually surprisingly readable.
replyIt has been a long time, but I think we were reading out of various editions of the Red Book
replyYes, but you are probably a bit too polite. And I'm not sure how to do justice to SQLite, Postgres and my new favourite toy DuckDB.
replyI've been really happy with DuckDB, and I love that fact that it can operate directly on things like JSON an JSONL. It's become my data swiss army knife.
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