[abanayev]

At some point, DBaaS systems should be able to understand and make inferences about your use cases, to the point where indexes and other performance optimizations are automated whenever you register a new query or something. This would be the new era of database systems, and as the article points out is increasingly true about all “infrastructure” concerns.

[pgwhalen]

One of the problems with this is that there will always be trade offs. It’s hard to imagine a database understanding the appropriate compromise between read and write speeds for your specific application, for example.