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Relational databases
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Relational databases, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Can't tell whether a query will be expensive because evaluation is opaque2023-08-30
- Forces developers to model and query data in an unintuitive way2020-07-09
- SQL is so non-intuitive that developers avoid it and struggle to use it2018-06-28
- Optimizer makes simple queries slow and hard to diagnose without digging into query plans2018-02-16
- Relational databases are difficult to operate day to day2016-06-08
- Proper systems are too inflexible, and CSV manipulation requires knowing how to code2014-02-19
- Making schemas and queries fast enough takes huge time and effort every time2008-08-05