Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills
by zzzcpan on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:46AM
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People behind NoSQL movement understand SQL better, than any people glorifying SQL here. In fact, I think this is a testament of how poorly most people actually understand SQL, they can't even see basic on the surface problems with it.
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Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills
by collyw on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:18AM
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All I heard from NoSQL proponents was that "relational databases don't scale". These same people were usually dealing with data sets that would fit easily onto a single server.
Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills
by zzzcpan on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:44AM
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No, I'm pretty sure you only heard it from your fellow RDBMS friends. I have never argued for scale myself, but plenty of times tried to debunk this exact stereotype.
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Re:SQL: One of the most valuable skills
by GVIrish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:13AM
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I think there are people who went with NoSQL because it fit their specific needs better than a regular RDBMS, and people who went NoSQL because they found it easier to work with than a RDBMS (at first).
The latter group often didn't want to learn SQL and went with NoSQL's as a shortcut, not because they had an intimate understanding of the tradeoffs between the approaches and decided NoSQL was the better option.