Musing similarly... Or just replace PostgreSQL's transaction log with Kafka, given all the Kafka's advantages. Seems to me that traditional RDBMSs cram too many

Musing similarly... Or just replace PostgreSQL's transaction log with Kafka, given all the Kafka's advantages. Seems to me that traditional RDBMSs cram too many seemingly independent subsystems into a single system, each one of which if separate and behind a well defined interface could be made substantially better. I think there's more room for software that is akin to SQLite - a library replacing RDBMS functionality within an application and thus allowing for composability on language-linking level as opposed to process-linking level (done with an orchestrator).