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by roywiggins 2460 days ago
Working in a relational-ish database built on top of a poorly-abstracted B-tree object store is among the top ten worst development hells I've personally endured. It was awful.

Yes, you can sort of make any database behave like any other database. But you don't want to. You want a power tool that has query planners built in that can efficiently solve the sort of problems you're dealing with.