I think people under-estimate incremental improvements a lot. My tai-chi teacher told me that eastern culture is more about "putting one sheet of paper on another", there is slow and steady improvement. Western is much more about "big bang approach", make it or break it.
SQLite has been around for 15 years, they never shifted their purpose and were constantly improving. You get almost perfect product at this point.
I work on in-memory db which was evolving similar way. Now after more than decade of small improvements, it is faster than java collections, despite doing serialization and its own memory management.
SQLite has been around for 15 years, they never shifted their purpose and were constantly improving. You get almost perfect product at this point.
I work on in-memory db which was evolving similar way. Now after more than decade of small improvements, it is faster than java collections, despite doing serialization and its own memory management.