On Jun 26, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What would you use NoSQL for versus a traditional RDBMS?
>
> I have no clue: I love traditional RDBMS's and don't see the benefit of
> NoSQL, other
> than massive scalability which I don't need. But I also know that me not
> seeing the
> benefit is a deficiency in me, not in NoSQL.
Different use cases. Sometimes you need to store massive amounts of
data with little regard to the structure of that data, or with data whose
structure may change over time, and relational DBs really suck at that. What
helped me grok NoSQL was imagining the denormalized data that would be created
by a report, and then sticking that as a single entry. It would make retrieving
that information so much faster than having to do multiple joins, and writing
would be much faster than having to update multiple tables.
-- Ed Leafe
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