#NoSQL

Cassandra is the one cursed to foresee the future yet condemned to have her prophecies ignored. A tragic hero of Greek myth and, paradoxically, a modern NoSQL database designed to anticipate massive data flows. Destined to bear the weight of truth, her warnings go unheard until, belatedly, disaster gives them resonance. Her name echoes through history as a byword for unheeded foresight.

A graph database is a data store forever chasing the soap opera of nodes and edges. It indulges in self-obsession under the guise of relations, shattering execution times in the process. During design it boasts ideal connectivity; in production it becomes a performance acrobat whose finale is always a crash. While hosting a festival of complexity, it relies on caches and indexes as the sole acts of salvation. Ultimately, it is an elaborate excuse to talk about "relationships".