relational database
also referred to as: relational databases
10 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2014 by Mike Olson · across every show →
Everything said about relational database, oldest first
Dec 18, 2014 positive
Hadoop was designed for new data problems, not relational database issues
“What we didn't understand at the time, and it's been a pretty common feeling, is Hadoop wasn't built to solve the problem we'd been solving with relational databases. It was designed to solve a new problem, and it turned out that new problem was going to be ve…”
Apr 20, 2015
Liu: Most software is just a CRUD interface over relational databases
“The vast majority of software out there in the world is not going towards some exciting new technology or, you know, not some, you know, innovative new consumer product, but really it's a reinvention of the same wheel again and again. And that is a create, rea…”
Apr 20, 2015
Liu: Collaborative undo is harder in relational databases than document editors
“In a relational data context, however, it's a much harder problem to solve, and you have to deal with things like, what if, you know, one person changes a column type from a linked field to a text field, and then somebody else was making edits to that field at…”
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Horowitz: MongoDB's key innovation was enabling indexing and searching inside documents
“The key thing that we did is, you know, you can always just store everything about a person in a single cell in a relational database. The thing that we did that was interesting was let you actually index on it and search on it and modify it in sort of very sm…”
Mar 18, 2016 neutral
Horowitz: Relational databases function like Microsoft Excel on steroids
“A relational database is basically like Microsoft Excel on steroids. If you take Microsoft Excel, and you've got tables and rows, and you've got, you know, columns, and it's kind of like a relational database, but what a relational database does is give you an…”
Aug 5, 2020 bullish
Aug 5, 2020
Feb 7, 2022 bullish
Eifrem: Neo4j is frequently 1,000 times faster for connected data queries
“We've optimized every layer in the stack of the database architecture completely around connected data. We're not built on top of a different database or anything. It's a native architecture. And that means that if you want to query along how things are connec…”
Mar 28, 2023 negative
Jun 28, 2023 neutral
Huber: Vector databases primarily handle un-databased unstructured data
“Vector databases are primarily about unstructured data. It's actually taking data that had no database that knew about it and loading it in for the very first time. Most applications of this stuff is not about taking data that's already in your relational data…”