Almost every popular database today is doing something behind the scenes that wastes your server power and slows down your app: They are constantly sorting data on disk.
This made sense 10 years ago when hard drives were slow. But today? Modern NVMe SSDs are incredibly fast. Forcing them to sort data using old methods is literally like putting speed bumps on an F1 racing track.
So, we asked a very simple question: What happens if we just... stop sorting data?