On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Guyren Howe <guyren@gmail.com> wrote:
The SQL language is terrible but we can live with it.
If anything, and especially something as pervasive and esoteric as SQL, makes you question your desire to live please get help.
But the answer to "Are there any relational data stores that offer eventual consistency, easy distribution, schema-on-demand or any such things a large modern application can use?" appears to be no. And that's just awful.
The axiom "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush" comes to mind here. This applies even if the bird-in-hand is ugly and the glimpses of the ones in the bush indicates they are beautiful.
