As our industry progresses through its cloud-native metamorphosis, we are also experiencing a revolution in database thinking. The amount of advancement we have seen in database technology over the past decade is significant. It started with the NoSQL movement, but then expanded into the Polyglot Persistence arena. Database sharding techniques finally enabled databases to scale horizontally by spreading disk access across commodity hardware. Polyglot Persistence expanded on this technique by optimizing how data is stored on these disks for different read and write patterns. CAP Theorem taught us to embrace eventual consistency in our designs in favor of availability.
However, with this advancement comes a significant ...
