Why do we need so many different databases?
My ideal database would borrow from RDBMS (like SQL Server), Document databases (like MongoDB), Graph Databases and Semantic Web Triple Stores; it would be the perfect hybrid of all of these and it would configure itself to be as efficient as possible answering queries.
That’s exactly the definition of polyglot persistence.
Every application could benefit of using different data models. The data ingestion module being a document store, a reporting module using relational data, another a graph model, etc.
But if all these models would exist in the same tool that will be a mammoth. It will be a tool good for everything, best at none — doesn’t that sound familiar in a way? Too heavy, too complicated, not agile.
Think of programming languages and multi-paradigms: object-oriented, functional, logic, etc. I’d love to be able to use any of them. But having a single language supporting all of these, I don’t know.
What I’d like is to have the option. And good, or even better, standardized inter-communication. Differently put, what I don’t want is a monolith, nor a highly heterogeneous environment.
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