Maybe the database got it right

4 months ago

The article discusses the historical distancing of databases in software development, favoring in-memory models and object-oriented programming.
It highlights how despite efforts to minimize database influence, databases indirectly shaped system designs.
The rise of ORMs and NoSQL movements further distanced relational databases, yet applications remained CRUD-heavy and relational.
Modern frontend development and the need for expressive data queries led to solutions like GraphQL, reintroducing database-like features.
Relational databases evolved, incorporating features from systems meant to replace them, suggesting they might have been right all along.
The article questions whether the reflexive hiding of databases still serves current needs and suggests reevaluating their role in system design.

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