Comparing Database Types
I am really tired of articles that talk about the different types of databases. People can make a graph databases act like relational databases, and vice-versa. Computers, in the end, are just a Turing machine. Just pay attention that the query that you are executing is actually doing the optimal solution.I wish more time would be spent talking about the underlying algorithms that the different query languages use to accomplish the tasks. It is important for developers to understand the execution complexity of queries, and how data is distributed across a cluster.For example, I am usually surprised when people talk about "web-scale", but they do not understand the difference between a "merge-join" and a "hash-join". Or when people do not realize that a sort requires the whole result set to be materialized and sorted.