[moray]

I have a very similar experience, in particular with my current project one of the users (a sysadmin actually) asked if I was using elasticsearch or similar because he noticed that searching a record and filtering was very fast.

My response: nope, MySQL! (plus an ORM, a very hated programming language and very few config optimisations on the server side).

This project DB has a couple of tables with thousands of records, not billions, and, for now, a few users (40-50).. a good schema and a few well done queries can do the trick.

I guess some people are so used to see sluggish application that as soon as they see something that goes faster than average they think it must use some cool latest big tech.

[nucleardog]

More than once I've run across situations of everyone sitting around going "we need to scale up the server or switch the database or rewrite some of this frontend stuff or something it's so slow and there's nothing we can do" and solved their intractable performance problems by just adding an index in MySQL that actually covers the columns they're querying on.

Lots of people seem to want some silver bullet magical software/technology to solve their problems instead of learning how to use the tools they have. That's not software development.