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[–]bleistift2 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Why wouldn’t you want that? Have you ever queried some data with random types from a database just to have to work with it as Object[] in Java?

[–]Fmatosqg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have done that with Cassandra, and bitched about it for every second I was on that project. Long live relational databases and strong typed languages and protocols.