Vectordb Memes

The database race starts with such optimism. OLTP and OLAP swimming confidently in their lanes, NoSQL feeling quirky but making progress, and VectorDB just happy to be included. Fast forward to reality: a negative balance that would make your bank manager cry, deadlocks freezing everything, joins that mysteriously don't work, and indexes still building since the Carter administration. It's like watching Olympic swimmers turn into drowning toddlers as soon as production traffic hits. And yet tomorrow we'll all convince ourselves "this time will be different."