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
Insight
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…”
Mike Olson Dec 18, 2014 ▶ 5:10 Mike Olson, Cloudera // The Cloudera Story (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Apr 20, 2015
Insight
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…”
Howie Liu Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 1:15 Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Apr 20, 2015
Insight
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…”
Howie Liu Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 8:45 Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Mar 18, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Eliot Horowitz Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 7:20 A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Mar 18, 2016 neutral
Insight
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…”
Eliot Horowitz Mar 18, 2016 ▶ 5:37 A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Aug 5, 2020 bullish
Opinion
Stewart: Modern relational databases must be shared-nothing distributed SQL
“We think that again, if you were to build a relational database today with the current state of art, you would end up with a shared nothing, a SQL database that supports transactions.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 13:11 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Aug 5, 2020
Insight
Stewart: Migrating to NoSQL sacrificed ACID consistency, creating major development drawbacks
“You traded scale for acid, but that's something you lost when you're moving away from the relational database. And it turned out that losing acid Was a big deal.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 41:18 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Feb 7, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
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…”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 5:50 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 28, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Multi-level graph queries are extremely hard to run in MongoDB or SQL
“So this type of query in a relational database or something like MongoDB is going to be very hard to run. You've got a lot of joins and you've got very complicated queries.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 5:39 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Jun 28, 2023 neutral
Insight
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…”
Jeff Huber Jun 28, 2023 ▶ 29:36 Why Vector Databases Are Exploding: Chroma Co-Founder Jeff Huber on Building AI-Native Infra
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