No-SQL databases are glorified caches

Re:No-SQL databases are glorified caches by j16sdiz on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:05PM (#26945815)

I think the no-sql vs sql war have ended already. Most of us now know what they can or cannot do.

Nothing new or interesting in this article.

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Re:No-SQL databases are glorified caches by FractalHQ on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:41PM (#26946305)

What about the guy that decided to learn about databases 5 minutes ago? He doesn’t know what they can or cannot do.

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Re:No-SQL databases are glorified caches by myrryr on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:47PM (#26950321)

I think this article won't tell him though, and that is a problem.

This person thinks they are glorified caches, but they miss what they are good at, REALLY fast aggregation across many servers, that isn't a glorified cache, that is something else.

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Re:No-SQL databases are glorified caches by hernantz on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:17PM (#26948275)

You would be suprised to find out that mongodb is still popular for the wrong reasons

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Re:No-SQL databases are glorified caches by myrryr on Monday April 26, 2021 @08:45PM (#26950306)

It is also popular for the right reasons too. Sometimes you want to aggregate large datasets incredibly fast.

Sometimes you want user defined queries which are easy to restrict to parts of a dataset by rules.

If you don't have a use case for something, it doesn't mean no one else does.

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Re:No-SQL databases are glorified caches by MapleWalnut on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @08:29AM (#26954971)

Which NoSQL store are you talking about regarding fast aggregations? I don’t think that’s a property of all NoSQL dbs.

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