I may be remembering this wrong, but I think it was Henry Rollins who once asked, “What came first, the shitty Multi-Model Databases or the Drugs?” His confusion was over whether:
A) there were a bunch of developers dicking around with their Mac laptops and they wrote a shitty database, put it on github, posted on hacker news, and then other developers who were on drugs started using it or…
B) there were a bunch of developers on ketamine and ecstasy and somebody said lets write a shitty database
I think “A” is what probably happens and how we end up with over 300 databases on DB Engines. But what about “B” ? Well I don’t have any good stuff lying around, but I did hurt my foot the other day and the doctors gave me some Tramadol, so lets down some of that and see what happens.
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Max De Marzi 