[koolba]

The vast majority of use cases for databases are trivial. For every esoteric, optimized to the max, bleeding edge kernel parameter tuned environment, you have 10,000+ CRUD apps that do little more than primary key look ups on vanilla btree indexes.

[therealdrag0]

I’ve worked at a half dozen companies most people have never heard of and they all had database complexity and performance issues. The whole “only FAANG has scale” meme needs to die.

You’re probably right there’s a magnitude more tiny apps but who cares. A large number of us still are interested in and need to solve for non-trivial cases.

[Too]

Most database performance issues are bad choice of indices, bad data model, bad queries, not enough RAM, missing pooling, unrealistic expectations and lack of pre-computed caches.

None of these are solved by "optimize kernel-parameters to the max".

[therealdrag0]

I agree! I must have misread or misunderstood the context.

[koolba]

This is exactly what I was talking about.