At some point, DBaaS systems should be able to understand and make inferences about your use cases, to the point where indexes and other performance optimizations are automated whenever you register a new query or something. This would be the new era of database systems, and as the article points out is increasingly true about all “infrastructure” concerns.
One of the problems with this is that there will always be trade offs. It’s hard to imagine a database understanding the appropriate compromise between read and write speeds for your specific application, for example.
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At some point, DBaaS systems should be able to understand and make inferences about your use cases, to the point where indexes and other performance optimizations are automated whenever you register a new query or something. This would be the new era of database systems, and as the article points out is increasingly true about all “infrastructure” concerns.
One of the problems with this is that there will always be trade offs. It’s hard to imagine a database understanding the appropriate compromise between read and write speeds for your specific application, for example.