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by jakewins 1250 days ago
Yeah agree, I had the same thought after I wrote that comment “wait dumbass, you don’t get to pick the key in the heap, it’s not the same”.

But still, you get what I’m getting at: in the end, the relational dbs, internally, build on top of abstractions that are things like trees, key-value structures, heaps, logs etc.