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Re:The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse by oblio on Thursday February 09, 2017 @10:17AM (#13607467)
Plus it's waaay more likely that bugs in application code will haunt you even more. Especially the lack of things such as foreign keys and other constraints.

Schemas can be straight jackets, but in many situations they're actually closer to life jackets.

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Re:The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse by gerbilly on Thursday February 09, 2017 @11:46AM (#13608301)
Totally agree that schemas are lifejackets. Carfully modelled data can outlive the application it was originally written for.

Poorly structured data, on the other hand, where the schema and consistency is enforced in code is much harder to migrate.

Maybe our problem is that we write systems with a disposable point of view? We don't even think the system will be around long enough to require migration.

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