Databases
Database Analogies
Collected by Daphne Miedema — Hellerstein, J. M., & Stonebraker, M. (2005). Readings in Database Systems. 4 ed. MIT Press.
Data storage and indexing
Anything else
Draw on the law of the instrument: "it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail"
| Symbol | Concept |
|---|---|
The (previous) omnipresence of disk-based row-stores as a storage solution
Probably the most important thing that has happened in the DBMS landscape is the death of “one size fits all”. Until the early 2000’s the traditional disk-based row-store architecture was omni-present. In effect, the commercial vendors had a hammer and everything was a nail.
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