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cakoose | 8 months 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.

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politelemon|8 months ago

I think this just illustrates the tech bubble we live in. Occasionally we find one that doesn't match ours.

akulkarni|8 months ago

Exactly!

"The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed" - William Gibson

dgellow|8 months ago

I had the same thought. They are off by a few years