[alganet]

How would you go about measuring that, or determining what's important?

Huge SQL for servers is just a different use case.

Someone's temporary browser data or settings for my android alarm app could be just as important and sensitive as an average record on those big servers.

Fortunatelly, SQL fits the role of a small transactional engine very well to support those small use cases for a large number of applications. It deserves the good reputation.

[TZubiri]

We don't need to measure everything, we may talk about variables that are hard or subjective to measure.