This end of 2021 post by Dr Andy Pavlo
https://ottertune.com/blog/2021-databases-retrospective/
is generally good news for DBAs and DB Engineering plus Andy writes with a sense of humour.
Andy is well regarded in the industry (I'm curious about Ottertune too, an AI project to tune database and do my job for me!?):
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where his research focuses on database management systems like self-driving databases, transaction processing systems and large-scale data analytics.
It is easy to get dazzled by some of the big names, big numbers and apparently scandalous industry stories. I'm not sure I would believe all the hype, but I liked this summary from Andy:
Foremost, it is a good thing that a relational database system has become the first choice in greenfield applications. This shows the staying power of Ted Codd’s relational model from the 1970s. Second, PostgreSQL is a great database system. Yes, it has known issues and dark corners, as does every DBMS. But with so much attention and energy focused on it, PostgreSQL is only going to get better over the years.
I think it would be good to get some more light on the postgres dark corners, if you understand what can go wrong then you can avoid it.
Plus I totally agree with Andy's point above i.e. "every DBMS has its dark corners".
Happy New Year everyone and looking forward to 2022 and maybe a bit more activity on the blog side :thinking:
Cheers
Dave
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