Comment by alecco
Papers by Stonebraker on that:
"What goes around comes around" (2005) https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mozafari/fall2015/eecs584/papers...
"What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around..." (2024) https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3685980.3685984 (ft Andy Pavlo)
Or video (2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Woy5I511L8
As someone not very deep into databases, these papers were fun to read.