On 1/10/2015 9:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
This is so uninformed. There is *no* difference between a table with key/value in a sql database and a no-sql database. Almost every SQL database out there has, and has had for several years, JSON, XML, and other compound data types.
Which are really just arbitrary data stored in table cells. That's not the same thing as complex matrices. These kinds of data don't fit well into relational databases. You can make them fit but then you're making them fit which indicates that a relational database is the wrong tool.
Ahh "scale." What can you say about scale? Almost all people get it wrong if they have never done it, and if they have done it they know that any arbitrary technology is only a tool to build something that gets it right.
Yep. And just so that this isn't a rag on relational databases, ALL databases have a point beyond which performance plummets. Where these points are for different technologies for given hardware and how the system performs under these conditions are factors that should be considered before choosing any technology.
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