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> When we started 8 years ago, SQL databases were “old fashioned.” NoSQL was the future. Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, InfluxDB – these were the new, exciting NoS
by cakoose 1y ago
> When we started 8 years ago, SQL databases were “old fashioned.” NoSQL was the future. Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, InfluxDB – these were the new, exciting NoSQL databases. PostgreSQL was old and boring.
In 2017? I thought the NoSQL hype had subsided by then and everyone was excited about distributed transactions -- Spanner, Cockroach, Fauna, Foundation, etc.
- politelemon 1y agoI think this just illustrates the tech bubble we live in. Occasionally we find one that doesn't match ours.
- akulkarni 1y agoExactly! "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed" - William Gibson
- dgellow 1y agoI had the same thought. They are off by a few years
- spooneybarger 1y agoMarketing is going to market.