talked to a bunch of you about this in recent months, but for the rest of you, some thoughts about a gradual but important shift in the database market.
General Purpose ==> Specialized ==> General Purpose
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Great post. How do we distinguish between change and our perception? Sometimes I think the change is oversold, but the rate of change for OLTP workloads is naturally slow so change is hard. Regardless, even RDBMS market has far more good choices than it used to.
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Somehow the needs of companies like Google were assumed to be representative way too often. Half of what makes (say) MyRocks seem interesting to me is what you don't have to give up on. Data siloing is already a big problem for most real world users.
MyRocks was great for my use-case because less space-amp and less write-amp. The space-amp benefit helps everyone. The write-amp benefit is less important to many but is useful when you pay for IOPs (EBS?) and/or when you own the SSD and endurance matters.