[karmaniverous]

Well, that's the nice thing about a library... when it works, all that effort happens under the hood. :)

By "regular ole" I presume you mean some flavor of RDBMS. Those have significant issues at scale that the newfangled platforms don't... but as you see there's a price to be paid at design time.

If I do my job right, you get to have your cake & eat it too!