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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by tictac-toe on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:19AM (#25629516)
All data is relational. If you think some data model is not relational then you haven't thought about the problem space enough :p

The only valid reasons to choose non-relational databases are scalability and performance.

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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by raphaelj on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:46AM (#25631218)
>> The only valid reasons to choose non-relational databases are scalability and performance.

Agree 200%. And people seem to get a wrong idea of where this argument starts making sense. With the right indexes, I can easily handle 200req/s on my last SaaS running on a $50/m PostgeSQL.

It's also significantly easier to move from a standardized relational model to a document DB than the opposite.

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