Re:Databases always have a schema (2018)
by atombender on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:28PM
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One major reason that I didn't touch on in my comment was that there was no "MySQL of object databases" at that pivotal time when the web took off. And so they missed their moment.
The industry tends to spiral back constantly, with "worse is better" winning in the short run, but with old technologies slowly creeping back in new forms. So Postgres is finally able to supplant MySQL, despite being better all along. gRPC is basically CORBA/COM retrofitted for the web. Go is the new Turbo Pascal. MongoDB + JSON is the new (but not better) object database. And so on.
The industry tends to spiral back constantly, with "worse is better" winning in the short run, but with old technologies slowly creeping back in new forms. So Postgres is finally able to supplant MySQL, despite being better all along. gRPC is basically CORBA/COM retrofitted for the web. Go is the new Turbo Pascal. MongoDB + JSON is the new (but not better) object database. And so on.