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@jk Let's be honest, they will shoot the bird.

@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com Ah right, of course, I can do that. Thank you 😃

@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com Hey, I wrote a whole thing about exactly this idea. It makes me so happy to see others say this too. https://radiki.dev/posts/a-small-dbms/

@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com As for its current dominance. The relational model was an out-of-this-world invention. It rightfully took everything by storm. That's why it dominates today, there has been nothing better _as a product_ around. Models? Meh, maybe. Docs + key/value are too simple, graphs too hard. So as long as nothing new challenges SQL, it's a nice middle ground that keeps incrementally being improved. With an immense ecosystem, from tools to uni courses, of course it's not going anywhere.

@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com Huh, TIL about Malloy. Ta.

@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com SQLite is an excellent piece of software, but it doesn't fit my description. I think SQL's time is past. We need new models, made for today's hardware. And I want a new license, one that lets you use the software only if you are building a community. I don't want to let software continue being appropriated by corporations. As for where federation should live - depends on what you mean by "app layer" and "storage". I think it best fits at the query language level.

@fallenhitokiri@social.screamingatmyscreen.com I agree, SQL has kept up with the times. I guess your argument is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", which is fair. But, I think hardware has moved on qualitatively from the 70s and 80s, and it's a legitimate question whether relational is still the best architectural model for it. The models (and their implementations) that came out in the 00s (docs, graph etc) didn't answer that question. So we need to keep trying. I wrote about this here: https://radiki.dev/posts/glowdust-intro/

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Unrelated - Hugos standard RSS location is hard to guess on mobile, needed my desktop to inspect source

Thank you for this, I didn't know. What is the expected location?