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I don't use Rails, but those Solid Adapters look cool. I think people would be surprised how long a RDBMS good enough before moving to more specialized solutions. Just jumping to best of class solutions for cache, pub/sub, full-text search, vector search, document storage, etc. adds too much operational complexity if you can get by just using a single database.

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Years ago I was working on a large Drupal site hosted on AWS with RDS MySQL and ElastiCache for caching. We noticed that ElastiCache was slower than we expected and switched the caching backend over to use the MySQL implementation in a simple KV table, and it was quite a bit faster than ElastiCache for most operations.

People really underestimate how good modern RDBMS are, especially when they have their query cache tuned properly, there's no reason to be slower than Memcache or Redis.

All the Solid Adapters but they couldn't name one as Solid Snake. Huge waste of opportunity. Hopefully more to come in 8.1

Solid Snake really should end up in the python world.

Or an adult movie

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