GeeCON 2023: Tomer Gabel - How crap works: Databases

The last decade has seen a proliferation in data retention technologies, from MongoDB to ElasticSearch to Riak to Datomic and so many others: relational databases, paper stores, key-value stores… oh my! So many choices, so much confusion. While fundamentally different products, all of these solve the same age-old problem: that of storing and managing data on a persistent medium. Yet despite utilizing them all day, we are frequently confounded by how they operate, treating them as magical devices that require peculiar care. No more! They say a small cognition is simply a dangerous thing… care to find out?