NoSQL as a movement is an interesting beast. I kinda like that it's negatively defined (I happen to belong myself to at least one other such a-community). It's not in its roots about proposing one specific new silver bullet to kill an old problem. it's about challenging the consensus. Actually, blindly and systematically replacing relational databases with object databases would just replace one set of issues with another. No, the point is to recognize that relational databases are not a universal answer -although they have been used as one for so long- and recognize instead that there's a whole spectrum of data storage solutions out there. Why is it so hard to recognize, by the way? You are already using some of those other data storage solutions...(read more) ...
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