[collyw]

This was the way things were done 20 years ago as far as I understand. Shame I mostly missed that (MySQL was flavor of the day, being free and fast and throwing a way a load of features, only to be repeated to an even greater extent by Mongo a decade later). I could see a lot of benefits to working like that.

[dventimihasura]

That's a good point about MySQL. PostgreSQL wasn't quite ready for primetime at that time, and Oracle and MSSQL aren't free. That left MySQL to fill the gap, but it's not really built for this style of development.