On: Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't

[CRConrad]

> Sometimes I feel like databases were created by people who never built a website before.

Yeah, well, no big wonder: Many database systems were created long before the Web.

[gkoberger → CRConrad]

I mean, Mongo came out in 2009 and Amazon predates both MySQL and Postgres.

I will say my criticism doesn't apply to Firebase; they definitely do a lot of the things I mentioned. My only issue with Firebase is that it's very much intended to be used directly with a realtime frontend.

[CRConrad → gkoberger]

Mongo, MySQL? Yeah, sure. But: DB2, Rdb, Interbase, Oracle, Ingres...

Bah, I can't recall them all. Just go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab... and click the table header to sort by "First public release date".