Re:Dear NoSQL: "SQL-isn't-scalable" is a lie
by halostatue on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @11:37PM
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NoSQL datastores are the new object databases without the compile-time shackles. (This already makes them better than ODBMS failures; they're not as hard to adapt to new programming languages or frameworks.)
I have believed for a very long time that you cannot be a good OO developer unless you really understand data modelling (which includes relational data modelling). There are often good reasons to break the "rules" of data normalisation (which is pretty much what NoSQL data stores do) but you shouldn't do so unless you know why you're doing this.
IMO, most data is more interrelated than people think that it is, and at least having a good model of how the data is related will make your entire design better.
I have believed for a very long time that you cannot be a good OO developer unless you really understand data modelling (which includes relational data modelling). There are often good reasons to break the "rules" of data normalisation (which is pretty much what NoSQL data stores do) but you shouldn't do so unless you know why you're doing this.
IMO, most data is more interrelated than people think that it is, and at least having a good model of how the data is related will make your entire design better.