Re:Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
by ttfkam on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:42PM
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Data structures can be a hard part of programming. That doesn't mean folks don't chose the wrong data structures all the time in any language.
An array instead of a linked list or vice versa. A dequeue instead of a set or vice versa. A binary tree instead of a B+ tree. You can't just throw column names at a DB schema and hope for the best. There's actual engineering to be done, even if many programmers refuse to admit it when interacting with a relational database engine.
An array instead of a linked list or vice versa. A dequeue instead of a set or vice versa. A binary tree instead of a B+ tree. You can't just throw column names at a DB schema and hope for the best. There's actual engineering to be done, even if many programmers refuse to admit it when interacting with a relational database engine.