I'm a software engineer and I am constantly confounded by other engineer's trepidation/apprehension/dislike for the common database. SQL databases especially.
OK, I got it, it is another technology to learn and it isn't like we don't have too much as it is, but SQL is really something pretty great. With all the "no-sql" offerings, SQL is the most widely used data access API in the world many times over. Why? Because it really does work, and it works pretty well. Think about this, SQL as a data access language is everywhere. It is in your web browser, it it is in you smart phone. (sqlite) Your bank uses it, your government uses it. Your doctors, lawyers, supermarkets, and trash collection companies use it. With sqlite, you can have from a tiny embedded database to a pretty big stand-alone database. With postgresql, you can go from a small database server to an absolutely HUGE data warehouse. Now, the "no-sql" technologies have a place, but I find much of what people want to use them for would be better done in a SQL system. Even the "no-sql" technologies are gaining SQL front ends, what's the point in that? How much of this is a reluctance to learn SQL? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
