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Re:Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses ha... by geophile on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @03:30PM (#21756532)
I don't think this is correct (about mostly range queries). Scan the code base of any application, and I predict you will see 90%+ queries not involving an inequality. That is for OLTP. For analytics, the answer might be different.
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