- custom app security
- social media
I also think cypher is a brilliant way to query a graph.
That's ~1 machine. 1 SWE for a database isn't egregious, databases provide huge value, but for that little performance, that's crazy.
I can only assume as core count has blown up over the last 10 years, the pricing has somewhat diminished, but still, I'd be expecting a heck of a lot more capacity for 1 SWE.
Ongoing enshittification risk.
I remembered it from a uni course (early 10s?) a few years ago for a use-case we didn't end up pursuing, but I wasn't hugely comfortable with investing effort into what I saw.
It’s JetBrains who were synonymous with Java so not a surprise, if was a recent project would have been Kotlin (which this company created)
Ten years ago I worked with a database called Versant OODBMS (from Actian). I was a junior sysadmin so i was essentially administering it at a very surface level but skimming the documentation (and trying some of the samples) it was very cool that you could pick essentially any random class, implement an interface (and hence a few method) and that was it, you had a database-serializable object.
The main issue was really scaling out (as in, multiple machines) but otherwise was a really great database.